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Bug#704767: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: kernel crashes when task block for more than 120 seconds



On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 10:22 -0400, Olivier Diotte wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> I did the following test this weekend:
> -Power off the machine
> -Remove the USB dongle (taint?)
> -Power up the machine
> -Log in and run doxygen as before
> 
> It still crashes. This is, seemingly, the related message:
> Apr 14 06:37:59 Debianosaur kernel: [137278.487402] doxygen[2535]:
> segfault at 0 ip 000000000065638c sp 00007fffa65be680 error 4 in
> doxygen[400000+4f0000]

Maybe this is what happens after the kernel refuses to allocate more
memory to it.

> Then again, the machine is still responsive, so this looks like it may
> be more of a bug in doxygen than in the kernel.

It does depend on how large a job you're giving to doxygen.  It
presumably needs to hold a lot of information about the source code it
scans in memory, so that it can generate cross-references.

Ben.

> Thanks for your help nonetheless.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.

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