Re: "make -j" with memory.(memsw.)limit_in_bytes smaller than required -> livelock, even for unlimited processes

Lutz Vieweg
2011-06-21T16:19:20Z

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