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Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 14:04:22 +0200
From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: kladit@t-online.de (Klaus Dittrich)
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Subject: Re: 2.4.11.p4 and dd
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On Sun, 7 Oct 2001 20:35:40 +0200 kladit@t-online.de (Klaus Dittrich) wrote:

> dd does not work anymore.
> 
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024k 
> 
> stops with "File size limit exceeded"
> 
> Using kernel 2.4.3 the same command works fine.
> 
> 2.4.3 uses a large amount of buffer, 2.4.11p4 only chache.
> 2.4.3 doesn't swap, 2.4.11p4 eats up 1 GB RAM and 100 MB swap.

Please try 2.4.11-pre5.
pre4 is seriously broken regarding high vm loads.

Regards,
Stephan

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