john bray wrote:
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 02:51, khage wrote:
I have used k3b successfully for some time, burning dvds, data
music for a while on both dvdrs and cd's.
But lately k3b sometimes when i burn mp3 get the whole fedora to
a standstill, the harddisk works overtime and cant even bring up
the screen after one hour working :)
I have been able to shutdown as root though(ctrl-alt+f2) and got
no errors through the shutdown process.
Today the same happened and i got a bunch of errors (when
shutting down), it told me that highmem was 0 and i was out of memory for
each gnomeapplet/program that had a processid (probably).
I have fc2 installed with the 2.6.8-1.521 kernel, latest k3b,
running gnome (that followed fc2), latest xorg-x11, updated last night
in hope to solve this issue.
My box: athlon 1.33, 512 mb ram, nvidia geforce2 32 mb...
My question is where to look in my box for some useful info that
i can try to solve this issue? im for sure running out of memory.
Btw, could the xserver also be involved in this memory issue?
Several of us are having similar problems with this. It seems to happen
with about any attempt at burning an audio cd. I believe that the
problem is in cdrecord, rather than k3b.
john
Burning audio CDs has a race condition which as been filed in bugzilla I believe and is soon to be fixed. It's a known issue with kernel 2.6.8-1.521.
This problem has been noted a few times, it's not a k3b issue. In fact, I just had a thread concerning this matter.
HTH
Alex White
