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From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pktcddvd -> immediate crash
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 18:04:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fyy5jgt6.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1112640251.5410.30.camel@localhost> (Soeren Sonnenburg's message of "5 Apr 2005 11:06:14 +0100")

On 5 Apr 2005, Soeren Sonnenburg whispered secretively:
> I wonder whether anyone could use the pktcddvd device without killing
> random jobs (due to sudden out of memory or better memory leaks in
> pktcddvd) and finally a complete freeze of the machine ?

I'm using it without difficulty.

> To reproduce just create an udf filesystem on some dvdrw, mount it rw
> and copy some large file to the mount point.

Well, I copied a 502Mb file to a CD/RW yesterday as part of my
regular backups. No problems.


I think we need more details (a .config would be nice, and preferably
a cat of /proc/slabinfo and a dmesg dump when the problem starts).

-- 
This is like system("/usr/funky/bin/perl -e 'exec sleep 1'");
   --- Peter da Silva

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-05 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-04 18:44 pktcddvd -> immediate crash Soeren Sonnenburg
2005-04-05 17:04 ` Nix [this message]
2005-04-05 18:06   ` Soeren Sonnenburg
2005-04-09  9:25     ` Peter Osterlund

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