On Oct 25, 2011, at 15:36, Felip Moll wrote:

> Thanks to all!
> 
> I didn't search very well into the bugs database. Sorry.
> 
> Jean-Paul, I took a look to your repos but I didn't find any emacs package. I 
> can only see:
>       • emacs-doxymacs - Doxygen add-on for Emacs/XEmacs
>       • emacs-w3 - W3 package for Emacs
>       • emacs-sdcc - Emacs extensions for SDCC
> 
> But no emacs and emacs-common package.

I built packages with the proposed fix from BZ. It seems to work, and fix the 
issue. If you're interested even though they had no real testing, find them in 
http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~wiesand/SL6/emacs/

Regards,
        Stephan

> Best regards.
> Felip
> 
> 2011/10/25 Stephan Wiesand <[email protected]>
> 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.

-- 
Stephan Wiesand
DESY -DV-
Platanenallee 6
15738 Zeuthen, Germany

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