> > My test system didn't hang FWIW. > > It wasn't thuge-gen which hung. It happened really early in > run_vmtests, perhaps setting nr_hugepages. I mean it didn't hang for the full script. Ah this causes compaction so if you have a lot of fragmented memory it may run for a lot time with very long latencies, but inhibiting page faults of other processes. It probably would have recovered. it's a general problem that others are complaining about too. -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>