Re: [linux-audio-dev] Disk use causes freezes

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Disk use causes freezes
From: Richard A. Smith (rsmith_AT_bitworks.com)
Date: Wed Aug 01 2001 - 23:08:31 EEST

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 21:55:00 +0300, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:

>No program is using that much memory that the swap space is needed.
>It looks like cp, md5sum, tar and/or flac program (which all have
>handled large data for me) either use much memory, or Linux VM is
>loading data always to a new memory location and eventually fills the
>whole memory. I don't know if VM is really swapping anything when the

Juhana,

Check out http://lwn.net/2001/0726/kernel.php3 and read the short
blurb on single-use pages. Perhaps the patch referenced will help
you out. I believe it's only for 2.4 though. 

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Richard A. Smith                         Bitworks, Inc.               
rsmith_AT_bitworks.com               501.846.5777                        
Sr. Design Engineer        http://www.bitworks.com

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