Terrible Memory leak on 2.6

Hi-

has anyone else by any chance seen a memory leak during ripping of CDs or writing CDs. On my system SuSE 9.1 "2.6.5-7.104-default" I can only, rip or burn one CD. The system runs out of memory and hangs about half way through the second cd.

I tried just creating the image but not writing and than doesn't seem to cause the problem. Only when the CD burner is used I see this problem.

The burner is an Emprex DVDRW 1008IM, used on an Athlon XP 2500+ system with 1GB of ram and 1GB of swap. The system seems to lock up when all the ram is exhausted, the swap is about 90% free.

I haven't debugged the problem much I just wanted to ask around before I start digging in.

Thanks.

Peace can only come as a natural consequence
of universal enlightenment. -Dr. Nikola Tesla

yes, same problem here. And on the SuSE mailing list many other reported the same when burning audio CDRs. I could reproduce it with vanilla-2.6.8-rc3/ 2.6.8-rc4 too. Up to now I was just reading about problems with IDE drives.

Best regards,

Markus

Am Sonntag 15 August 2004 09:51 schrieb Dragan Stancevic:

Thanks Markus for your mail. My CD is an ide drive too. And this only happens when burning or ripping CDs. Mount and copy work fine for me.

Is that the case for you too?

PS: I dare not try and burn a DVD.

Peace can only come as a natural consequence
of universal enlightenment. -Dr. Nikola Tesla