Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > I finally managed to reproduce once on my VM after turning on transparent > hugepages (which both my workstations are running with). The crash rate is > much lower — under 10%, vs. 80–90% on the workstations — but... > > Anyway, the next thing I plan to test is to turn off transparent hugepages > on a workstation and see if that avoids the issue. I have *no idea* why it > matters, and even less so why a rebuild fixes it. Might be a bit, as that > requires rebooting. That actually makes some kind of sense, since this bug has something to do with garbage collection, and THP may result in different memory allocation patterns due to the changed page size. Except.. Isn't THP enabled by default on most systems? -- see shy jo
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