Bug 48915 - VM in kernel 2.4.6-2 is very bad.
Summary: VM in kernel 2.4.6-2 is very bad.
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-07-12 15:10 UTC by hjl
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:34 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-03-19 02:31:13 UTC
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A glibc Makefile to trigger the VM bug. (2.56 KB, text/plain)
2001-07-22 18:11 UTC, hjl 		no flags Details
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Description hjl 2001-07-12 15:10:27 UTC 
When I rebuild glibc 2.2.3-13 rpm, I get

VM: killing process makeinfo
VM: killing process ld.so
VM: killing process syslogd
VM: killing process cc1

under 2.4.6-1. I have no problem with 2.4.5-10. It
happens on 2 machines:

# free
                total       used       free     shared    buffers    
cached
Mem:         93172      89816       3356          0      58348       9980
-/+ buffers/cache:      21488      71684
Swap:       530104       7216     522888

# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        255124     244192      10932          0      18700     187232
-/+ buffers/cache:      38260     216864
Swap:       530104      10872     519232

I don't think memory is a problem.
Comment 1 hjl 2001-07-17 00:22:13 UTC 
I got the same problem with 2.4.6-2.  When I built glibc 2.2 with
parallel make, I got

VM: killing process ld
VM: killing process ld
VM: killing process ld
VM: killing process ld
VM: killing process ld
VM: killing process makeinfo
VM: killing process makeinfo
VM: killing process ld
VM: killing process ld
VM: killing process ld
VM: killing process ld

It is on a machine with 256MB RAM and 512 MB swap. When it happened, about 40 MB
swap
was used and load average was about 8. I had no problem with 2.4.5-10.
Comment 2 hjl 2001-07-22 18:11:48 UTC 
Created attachment 24509 [details]
A glibc Makefile to trigger the VM bug.
Comment 3 hjl 2001-07-22 18:12:58 UTC 
I uploaded a Makefile for glibc which triggers
the VM bug. It happens to me on UP machines with
96MB and 256MB RAM.
Comment 4 Jay Turner 2002-03-19 02:31:07 UTC 
Can I close this issue out?  VM problems are lots better in the latest kernels
aren't they.
Comment 5 hjl 2002-03-19 04:47:05 UTC 
Please close it. It works fine now.
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