Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: audio cd writing causes massive swap and crash | | From | Martin Schlemmer <> | | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 2004 22:44:19 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 14:54, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22 2004, Ed Sweetman wrote: > > I've had other people test writing. It appears that scsi-emu is not > > effected by this memory leak when writing audio cds. So it would appear > > that ide-cd along with any of the dependent ide source files is the > > culprit. But I cannot find anywhere in ide-cd that is apparent to being > > a mem leak. There are various conditions in ide_do_drive_cmd that state > > that the cdrom driver has to be very careful about handling but without > > intimate knowledge of the driver, I can't be sure that it's sufficiently > > handling those situations. > > > > Surprisingly, it's very hard to find anyone who's used the native atapi > > mode to write an audio cd in 2.6. Which is partly why this problem > > hasn't generated more mail traffic here I would guess. > > That's not true, lots of people use it. But, oddly, the leak isn't > reproducable on any machine I've tested.
I seem to remember he noted a patch about dma during audio writing, and his 'testing' if it might be the cause was to just disable dma on the drive ...
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