Re: audio cd writing causes massive swap and crash

From: bert hubert
Date: Sat Jul 17 2004 - 15:45:53 EST


On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 04:00:13PM -0400, Ed Sweetman wrote:
> 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
> the box to crash before finishing the cd. CPU usage during the write is

Can you run vmstat 1 during the burn and show us the output?

Thanks.

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