From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:28:48 GMT
Subject: Re: gitk with the latest branch makes the system unusable for some time
Message-ID: <4D64EF70.9060600@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim3MW0PmD5_tra4nmRapfgHJ9K_usJWGVK3AOUC@mail.gmail.com>

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?

Is that gitk on the (which) kernel repo?

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

> 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