Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:08:55 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: memory not released after using cdrecord/cdrdao (was: audio cd writing causes massive swap and crash) |
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* Ed Sweetman [Sat, Jul 17 2004, 04:00:13PM]: >> Both with 2.6.7-rc3 and 2.6.8-rc1-mm1 I get the same behavior when >> writing an audio cd on my plextor px-712a. DMA is enabled and normal >> data cds write as expected, but audio cds will cause (at any speed) the >> box to start using insane amounts of swap (>150MB) and eventually cause
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:46:05AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Just FYI: we have a similar bug description in the Debian BTS, where the > user reports that kernel does not release memory assigned to userspace > after cdrdao or cdrecord have used it (writting in DAO mode), though he > could not find what allocated this memory. For details: > http://bugs.debian.org/256871 (dump attached).
Is there any way we could get a characterization of the kind of memory that's proliferating here? e.g. could you snapshot /proc/meminfo, /proc/slabinfo, and /proc/vmstat at regular intervals during the run?
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