Hello Felip, On Oct 24, 2011, at 21:48, Felip Moll wrote:
> Recently I installed a SL6.1 Cluster with 16 nodes, slurm resource manager, > etc. > > I use Emacs to edit my files as do some of the researchers of my > investigation center. > > One day I detected that some daemons hunged. I discovered that the kernel was > killing some processes because the system went out of memory. I couldn't > reproduce the error anymore, and the thing seemed to occurr on very random > times. > > Since this day, I limited with limits.conf the user stack to 15Gb. (my server > has 16gb, and consumes normally no more than 1gb). > > Today, when I was doing some tasks I could see what is causing the problem. > It's Emacs!. There seems to be a user that uses emacs and that does logout > from his session without exiting it. The access to the server is done by ssh. > > I will try to install the latest 23.3 version with .tar.gz package but I like > to use the Yum package if it's possible in order to keep the installation as > "clean as possible". > > Should I report it to some place? it seems someone else already has: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732157 There's a proposed patch attached to that BZ. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
