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SubjectRe: VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems?
On Sat 2007-09-15 08:27:23, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Mark Smith reported a OOM condition when he copies a
> large (46GiB) file from an NTFS partition (using the
> stock kernel driver) to /dev/ null (or to a file on
> ext3, same result).
>
> The machine this runs on has an i386 kernel with 12GiB
> RAM (yes this is not a typo it is 12GiB!).

Yes, that's known broken. 32bit machines with to much memory just do
not work properly.

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