linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?)

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Message-ID: <29495f1d0708010845x446f7823qcfe2c5244b604078@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:45:00 -0700
From:	"Nish Aravamudan" <nish.aravamudan@...il.com>
To:	"Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Cc:	"Zan Lynx" <zlynx@....org>,
	"Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?)

On 7/31/07, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> 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?
>
> There was a hugepage problem fixed very recently, in 2.6.23-rc1 IIRC.

Actually fixed just after 2.6.23-rc1:

git describe 5ab3ee7b1cd5c91eb2272764f9d7d1fe4749681e
v2.6.23-rc1-14-g5ab3ee7

Thanks,
Nish
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