Ar Mer, 2006-07-12 am 10:15 +1000, ysgrifennodd Russell Stuart:
> It is running the Debian stable kernel (2.6.8.1) with
> cfq on a dual core machine. Although it shouldn't be,
2.6.8 certainly had problems in some cases where there was a lot of I/O
going on and it would out-of-memory when it should have been trying
harder to dump all the dirty pages to disk.
> Any clues would be appreciated.
Not really a fix in itself but see what happens if "sync" gets called
every 30 seconds or so during the backup that triggers the problem.
Alan
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