Re: 2.6.8.1 OOM on hard drive copy

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-09-23T21:21:59Z

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:55:42 -0700, Randy Gardner <lkml@bushytails.net> wrote:

> Quick system specs:
> Dual p3s on a MSI 694D Pro motherboard (via chipset), 2GB of ram.
> 2.6.8.1 kernel compiled with 4gb memory limit.

> The hard drive being copied from does not work with DMA, and having it
> in results in no dma for any of the drives. (No message is displayed
> for this, but hdparm shows dma off when it's normally on. On the box

It shouldn't be like that. Please send dmesg output for this system.

> the 8gb drive was removed from, dma would always immediately time out)

ditto