Re: 2.6.8.1 OOM on hard drive copy

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Thu Sep 23 2004 - 16:28:35 EST


On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:55:42 -0700, Randy Gardner <lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Quick system specs:
> Dual p3s on a MSI 694D Pro motherboard (via chipset), 2GB of ram.
> 2.6.8.1 kernel compiled with 4gb memory limit.

> The hard drive being copied from does not work with DMA, and having it
> in results in no dma for any of the drives. (No message is displayed
> for this, but hdparm shows dma off when it's normally on. On the box

It shouldn't be like that. Please send dmesg output for this system.

> the 8gb drive was removed from, dma would always immediately time out)

ditto
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