[distcc] Re: Distcc freezes during compile

[Stephen torri]

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 09:34, Dag Wieers wrote:
> > This is a kernel bug -- applications should never hang the machine.
> > Switch to stock 2.4.24 and see if the problem can still be reproduced.
> > If it can, let us know.  If that works, see if the 2.4.24 preemption
> > patch works.
> 
> There has been a kernel memory leak in the 2.4.18/2.4.20 RH kernels. 
> Depending on the use your machine could run out of memory in a couple of 
> hours up to weeks. I've seen it happen on boxes that have high IO-load and 
> CPU-usage, mainly with rrdtool and mrtg. You can find more information 
> here:

I will try to run a non-custom kernel today. I find it strange that it
takes distcc 2.12.1 to cause this "bug" to occur while 2.5 did the same
job. I would not call it a kernel memory leak yet since the site posted
by Dag was leaning towards a kernel memory leak being the cause but was
not conclusive. I need an actual proof first in order to have a simple
test case which I can then send to the colleagues which developed this
custom kernel patch.

Stephen  
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Stephen Torri
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