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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:45:00 -0700
From: "Nish Aravamudan" <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>
To: "Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?)
Cc: "Zan Lynx" <zlynx@acm.org>, "Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On 7/31/07, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.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