[KLUG Members] SuSE 9.1 CD burning problems?

[Bruce Smith]

Has anyone burned CD's on SuSE 9.1?  There appears to be a MAJOR memory
leak somewhere.  On a machine with a GB of memory, if I burn a half
dozen or so CD's, I run completely out of memory, fill up swap, and the
machine sometimes locks up tight.  It worked fine under SuSE 9.0, and
the major change is the 2.6 kernel and the device file used.  I think
I'll try the old/obsolete ide-scsi driver on 2.6 ...

Check this out, burning just one CD:


# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1034428     697016     337412          0      40588     430012
-/+ buffers/cache:     226416     808012
Swap:       682720        284     682436

# cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrecorder -tao -eject -driveropts=burnproof -speed=12 bootcd.iso
...
Track 01:  449 of  449 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf  94%]  12.6x.
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 471255040/471255040 (230105 sectors).
Writing  time:  269.805s
Average write speed  11.7x.
Min drive buffer fill was 94%
Fixating...
Fixating time:   24.207s
cdrecord: fifo had 7423 puts and 7423 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 7358 times full, min fill was 98%.

# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1034428    1014736      19692          0      30732     330408
-/+ buffers/cache:     653596     380832
Swap:       682720        284     682436