From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B609690013A for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:35:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4E00C851.1090307@5t9.de> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:35:29 +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> <4E00C483.5080302@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 06:28 PM, Ying Han wrote: > Last time I tried was build on mmotm-2011-05-12-15-52 with the patch. > But I assume you can also > patch it on top of 2.6.39. Ok, thanks for that info. > Meantime, I am trying to reproduce your livelock on my host with kernbench. I'm not sure you will see a kernel-compile ever spawn enough compile jobs in parallel to reproduce the problem. It may be much easier to use the Makefile I attached to my initial problem report... 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