From: Justin Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:37:34 GMT
Subject: Re: gitk with the latest branch makes the system unusable for some time
Message-ID: <2E3AD768-C697-4945-AAEA-9897709E011E@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D64EF70.9060600@drmicha.warpmail.net>


On Feb 23, 2011, at 3:28 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote:

> Justin Mattock venit, vidit, dixit 23.02.2011 00:53:
>> not sure if there is any reports of this or not, basically using gitk
>> on my macbookpro2,2 makes the system extremely slow and unusable
>> (after a while can finally use the system)
>
> ..and "the latest branch" is master,next or pu from when?
>

latest Mainline 2.6.38-rc5

> Is that gitk on the (which) kernel repo?

the git version is 1.6.5.2.180.gc5b3e

>
> I have no trouble with gitk (today's next) on git.git (nor on the
> LibreOffice beast).
>

yeah over here its very slow

>> in dmesg I am seeing this:
>>
>> [ 6089.363045] NetworkManager invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x84d0,
>> order=0, oom_adj=0, oom_score_adj=0
>> [ 6089.363050] Pid: 2107, comm: NetworkManager Not tainted
>> 2.6.38-rc5-00101-gebad2c2 #2
>> [ 6089.363052] Call Trace:
>> [ 6089.363062]  [<ffffffff810c563c>] ? T.547+0x6a/0x180
>> [ 6089.363066]  [<ffffffff810c5799>] ? T.544+0x47/0x24c
>> [ 6089.363070]  [<ffffffff810c5beb>] ? out_of_memory+0x24d/0x2f8
>> [ 6089.363074]  [<ffffffff810c9142>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x55c/ 
>> 0x696
>> [ 6089.363079]  [<ffffffff810dc985>] ? handle_pte_fault+0x2cd/0x73f
>> [ 6089.363084]  [<ffffffff8104e522>] ? pte_alloc_one+0x1e/0x3c
>> [ 6089.363088]  [<ffffffff810c8406>] ? __free_pages+0x1b/0x24
>> [ 6089.363091]  [<ffffffff810ddfc1>] ? __pte_alloc+0x1d/0xcd
>> [ 6089.363094]  [<ffffffff810de185>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x114/0x164
>> [ 6089.363099]  [<ffffffff8144973d>] ? do_page_fault+0x3dc/0x401
>> [ 6089.363104]  [<ffffffff81112eef>] ? mntput_no_expire+0x8d/0x13f
>> [ 6089.363108]  [<ffffffff81112fc2>] ? mntput+0x21/0x23
>> [ 6089.363112]  [<ffffffff810fb8dc>] ? fput+0x20e/0x21d
>> [ 6089.363116]  [<ffffffff81446a25>] ? page_fault+0x25/0x30
>
> So you think gitk took down your Networkmanager?
>
> Michael


yeah I was streaming music, then all hell broke loose..
maybe I should update git to the latest(didn't think to do so)

Justin P. Mattock