From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1FBD66B0143 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:19:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4E00C483.5080302@5t9.de> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:19:15 +0200 From: Lutz Vieweg MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: "make -j" with memory.(memsw.)limit_in_bytes smaller than required -> livelock, even for unlimited processes References: <4E00AFE6.20302@5t9.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Ying Han Cc: Balbir Singh , Daisuke Nishimura , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , linux-mm@kvack.org On 06/21/2011 06:01 PM, Ying Han wrote: > The following patch might not be the root-cause of livelock, but > should reduce the [kworker/*] in your case. > > From d1372da4d3c6f8051b5b1cf7b5e8b45a8094b388 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > Can you give a try? I will first need to move this test to a machine (like my Laptop) that I can more aggressively reboot without disturbing the developers on the shared hardware. Will do that asap. > I don't know which kernel you are using in case > you don't have this patched yet. 2.6.39. 5 out of 6 hunks in your patch apply to this version, 1 is rejected - so I guess I should upgrade to a more recent kernel, first. Would 2.6.39.1 be sufficient or would some non-release kernel (from which git repository?) be required? Regards, Lutz Vieweg -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org