From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266183AbUH0PrC (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:47:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266185AbUH0PnM (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:43:12 -0400 Received: from poros.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.132.44]:62102 "EHLO poros.telenet-ops.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266227AbUH0PlX (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:41:23 -0400 Message-ID: <412F5624.7010506@seagha.com> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:41:24 +0200 From: Karl Vogel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (Windows/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank Steiner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1+patches: Still a memory leak with cdrecord References: <412F4637.8080901@bio.ifi.lmu.de> In-Reply-To: <412F4637.8080901@bio.ifi.lmu.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Frank Steiner wrote: > Karl Vogel wrote: > >>I'm not sure, but this sounds a bit similar to a problem I am seeing. >> Are you by any chance using the CFQ scheduler?! (elevator=cfq) If so, >> give elevator=as or elevator=deadline a go. > > I've no idea what the CFQ scheduler is :-) I'm not using anything like > that on the kernel append line, so if it's not standard, then no, I'm > likely not using it... Probably not. Anticipatory (as) scheduler is the default, so unless you specify elevator=cfq on the boot line (or are running a patched kernel), you will be using that. You can look at the kernel boot messages to find out, or do the following in a shell after booting: # dmesg|grep "io scheduler"