Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?) | From | Zan Lynx <> | Date | Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:40:59 -0600 |
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On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 08:52 -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > On 7/31/07, Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:02 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:44:21 -0600 Zan Lynx wrote: > > > > > > > I was playing with huge pages and libhugetlbfs. Small programs like > > > > "ls" work fine. I tried running Evolution through libhugetlbfs and the > > > > system slowly stops running. One interesting thing is the "ps" command, > > > > it gets stuck like this: > > > > > > Do you mean 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 or 2.6.23-rc1-mm1? > > > > D'oh! I mean 2.6.23-rc1-mm1, the 22 was a typo. Cut & paste to be > > sure: > > Linux zephyr 2.6.23-rc1-mm1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jul 25 17:33:04 MDT 2007 > > x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > > Just to confirm, still happens with -mm2?
No, it does not seem to. Evolution runs OK. ps, top, pmap all work fine.
However, a couple of other things happened. Could be unrelated or only loosely related.
Evolution launches spamd (spamassassin) to filter junk mail. spamd died and I have this in dmesg to show for it:
VM: killing process spamd
spamd would have inherited the libhugetlbfs.so environment variables. There are no other clues as to why it died though.
Also, immediately after launching evolution with libhugetlbfs, I got that USB bug where the mouse starts creating keyboard input. I got some of these in dmesg: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 240
That could be pure coincidence, although I had been using the system almost all day before that, and it hadn't happened. -- Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org> [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |