Re: Possible dcache BUG

[Udo A. Steinberg]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:11:54 -0700 Andrew Morton (AM) wrote:

AM> "Udo A. Steinberg" <us15@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
AM> >
AM> > I've tried to download 700 MB of data from a digital camera via USB using
AM> >  "gphoto2 --get-all-files" and I can repeatedly run my 128 MB box out of
AM> >  memory using either Linux 2.4.26 or 2.6.8.1 for that.
AM> 
AM> whee.  How much swap is online?

Something close to 512 MB.

Adding 506512k swap on /dev/hda2.  Priority:-1 extents:1

AM> Not that it matters - you seem to have a bunch of reclaimable pagecache
AM> just sitting there.  Very odd.
AM> 
AM> Could gphoto2 be using mlock?  Does it run as root?

No, gphoto2 was not running as root.

-Udo.

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