Package: dcfldd Version: 1.9-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: David Polverari <david.polver...@gmail.com>
This bug was taken from dcfldd project[1]. [1] https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/dcfldd/issues/16 Out of memory: Killed process 9737 (dcfldd-v1.9) total-vm:847432kB, anon-rss:844620kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:1696kB oom_score_adj:0 Prepare: swapoff -a # Just for a faster OOM fallocate -l 10G test.dd #create bigger file than your RAM The bug: dcfldd diffwr=on if=/dev/zero of=test.dd # OOM kill Default option (without diffwr) isn't affected. The problem: When destination blocks are same (not written), memory blocks remain allocated. Eriberto
