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    SubjectRe: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?)
    On 8/1/07, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
    > Nish Aravamudan wrote:
    > > 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
    >
    > Looks to me like Andrew included Ken's patch in his rc1-mm1 anyway,
    > so that shouldn't be the issue. Or did I not read mm/hugetlb.c correctly?

    Yeah you're right, the -mm tree has that bug fixed.

    Thanks,
    Nish
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