Am 05.04.2013 14:00, schrieb Mel Gorman: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 04:11:24PM +0200, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote: >> Am 03.04.2013 16:03, schrieb Mel Gorman: >>>> I've now tested 3.9-rc5 this gaves me a slightly different kernel log: >>>> [ 197.236518] pigz[2908]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp >>>> 00007f347bffed00 error 14 >>>> [ 197.237632] traps: pigz[2915] general protection ip:7f3482dbce2d >>>> sp:7f3473ffec10 error:0 in libz.so.1.2.3.4[7f3482db7000+17000] >>>> [ 197.330615] in pigz[400000+10000] >>>> >>>> With 3.8 it is the same as with 3.8.4 or 3.8.5. >>>> >>> >>> Ok. Are there NUMA machines were you do *not* see this problem? >> Sadly no. >> >> I can really fast reproduce it with this one: >> 1.) Machine with only 16GB Mem >> 2.) compressing two 60GB Files in parallel with pigz consuming all cores >> > > Ok, I'm dealing with this slower than I'd like due to an unfortunate > abundance of bugs right now. I am putting together a reproduction case but > I still can't trigger it unfortunately. Can you post your .config in case > it's my kernel config that is the reason I can't see the problem please? no problem. Attaches is my kernel config. Stefan