From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:48:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT
Message-ID: <u1wbwjh10.fsf@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071015194214.GC15541@steel.home>

> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:42:14 +0200
> From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
> Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org,
> 	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, ae@op5.se, tsuna@lrde.epita.fr
> 
> Hmm... Could the allocation of large contiguous blocks also lock the
> system hard?

No, not on XP.

> For instance, I avoid starting the test suite on my XP
> workstation at work: it locks up hard every time.

Sounds like a bug to me.