On Sat 2007-09-15 08:27:23, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Mark Smith reported a OOM condition when he copies a 
> large (46GiB)  file from an NTFS partition (using the 
> stock kernel driver) to /dev/ null (or to a file on 
> ext3, same result).
> 
> The machine this runs on has an i386 kernel with 12GiB 
> RAM (yes this  is not a typo it is 12GiB!).

Yes, that's known broken. 32bit machines with to much memory just do
not work properly.

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