[PING] [v9] malloc: Consistently apply trim_threshold to all heaps [BZ #17195]

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Thu May 7 05:08:00 GMT 2015


On 05/07/2015 01:01 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 02:20:41PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> On 05/04/2015 11:09 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 11:05:46AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
>>>> Also FWIW, my trim patch is still making its way into opensuse. It got held
>>>> up by a bug in another package that was using uninitialsed memory.  In the
>>>> future if there is a problem that points the finger at this patch, it's
>>>> worth testing with MALLOC_CHECK_ to see if that "fixes" it by zeroing memory.
>>>
>>> Is this other package java?  We had openjdk crashing due to this patch
>>> in rawhide.
>>
>> What openjdk crash? :-)
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1209451
> 
> This became very frequent due to this patch.  I'm going to leave out
> this patch till they figure out what the problem is.

Or put it back in to force them to figure it out :}

c.



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