On 8/1/07, Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 08:52 -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > > On 7/31/07, Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Interesting. > 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. Interesting. Any chance spamd can be run manually with those env variables, but with HUGETLB_VERBOSE=99 (and/or in gdb) to see what happens to it? > 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. Had you started evolution w/o libhugetlbs at all before that? It does seem like that would be coincidence. Thanks, Nish - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
