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William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> 
> Enumerate those more basic things.
> 

Why does it fail when laptop_mode is set, and not otherwise?
Proably by the time laptop mode decides to start writing something,
the scanner is ready to call it quits and go OOM. Maybe laptop
mode needs to fire up the disk and do another pass before OOM.