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. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/