On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 13:57 -0700, Colin Cross wrote: > > seq_files are often used for debugging data. When the system is under > memory pressure, and dumping debugging data starts trying to allocate > large physically contiguous buffers, it often makes the problem > worse. Shouldn't you be using ->next instead of dumping everything in a single seqop? That way it can return partial buffers and keep state etc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html