Re: Memory leak in Emacs 23.1 - SL.6.1
Hello Mr. Moll, I've made a backport of Emacs 23.3 from Fedora 16 to SL 6. I use it daily without problems so far, nevertheless I cannot tell if it solves the problem you're facing. If you want to uses Yum with my repository, instructions are here: http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/slsoc/6x/dim/soc-release/doc/SoCrepo/ If you want to download only the Emacs packages, the repositories contents are here: http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/slsoc/soc/SRPMS/repoview/ http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/slsoc/soc/i386/repoview/ http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/slsoc/soc/x86_64/repoview/ Hope this helps. On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 21:48 +0200, Felip Moll wrote: Hello all!, Recently I installed a SL6.1 Cluster with 16 nodes, slurm resource manager, etc. I use Emacs to edit my files as do some of the researchers of my investigation center. One day I detected that some daemons hunged. I discovered that the kernel was killing some processes because the system went out of memory. I couldn't reproduce the error anymore, and the thing seemed to occurr on very random times. Since this day, I limited with limits.conf the user stack to 15Gb. (my server has 16gb, and consumes normally no more than 1gb). Today, when I was doing some tasks I could see what is causing the problem. It's Emacs!. There seems to be a user that uses emacs and that does logout from his session without exiting it. The access to the server is done by ssh. I will try to install the latest 23.3 version with .tar.gz package but I like to use the Yum package if it's possible in order to keep the installation as clean as possible. Should I report it to some place? Thank you. Felip. Here there is the info. that I gathered: [root@acuario ~]# free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 16080 15904175 0 88 1081 -/+ buffers/cache: 14734 1345 Swap:16381353 16028 [root@acuario ~]# uname -a Linux acuario 2.6.32-131.17.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 5 17:19:54 CDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@acuario ~]# who root pts/12011-10-24 21:25 (192.168.xx.xx) [root@acuario ~]# lastlog ... rrossi pts/3halley.rmeecimne Mon Oct 24 09:30:54 +0200 2011 ... [root@acuario rrossi]# ps aux | grep rrossi rrossi 19902 13.1 85.9 14679980 14151208 ? ROct21 605:18 emacs -nw acuari_configure.sh root 21157 0.0 0.0 103228 856 pts/1S+ 21:33 0:00 grep rrossi [root@acuario rrossi]# du -chs ./kratos/cmake_build/acuari_configure.sh 4.0K./kratos/cmake_build/acuari_configure.sh (it is a 55 lines normal flat text file, I checked it with my root emacs instance and all went ok) 4.0Ktotal [root@acuario ~]# emacs --version GNU Emacs 23.1.1 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of Emacs under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING. [root@acuario ~]# lsof | grep rrossi (the same as grep emacs) COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME emacs 19902rrossi cwd DIR 8,33 4096 83886081 /home/kratos_common emacs 19902rrossi rtd DIR9,0 4096 2 / emacs 19902rrossi txt REG9,0 11143104 5779966 /usr/bin/emacs-23.1 emacs 19902rrossi mem REG9,0 228984 5768561 /usr/lib64/librsvg-2.so.2.26.0 emacs 19902rrossi mem REG9,0 155696 2752626 /lib64/ld-2.12.so emacs 19902rrossi mem REG9,0 1904312 2752790 /lib64/libc-2.12.so emacs 19902rrossi mem REG9,0 141576 2752807 /lib64/libpthread-2.12.so emacs 19902rrossi mem REG9,0 598816 2752609 /lib64/libm-2.12.so emacs 19902rrossi mem REG9,047064 2752595 /lib64/librt-2.12.so emacs 19902rrossi mem REG9,0 941440 2752780 /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.2200.5 emacs 19902rrossi mem REG9,088240 2752794 /lib64/libz.so.1.2.3 emacs 19902rrossi mem REG9,0 283584 2752597 /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2200.5 emacs 19902rrossi mem REG9,0 109808 2752599 /lib64/libresolv-2.12.so emacs 19902rrossi mem REG9,0 268200 2752880 /lib64/libdbus-1.so.3.4.0 emacs 19902rrossi mem REG9,0 411200 5773480 /usr/lib64/libtiff.so.3.9.4 emacs 19902rrossi mem REG9,0 112856 5770325 /usr/lib64/libxcb.so.1.1.0 emacs 19902rrossi mem REG9,0
Update vs. Clean install of sci-linux 6.1
I have scientific linux 5.4 and I want to upgrade to 6.1. However, I don't want the install program to wipe out my existing software programs and files. Should I use the Full Installation or something else (Live DVD maybe)? Thank You for Responding Andrew Stallard
Re: Memory leak in Emacs 23.1 - SL.6.1
Hello Felip, On Oct 24, 2011, at 21:48, Felip Moll wrote: Recently I installed a SL6.1 Cluster with 16 nodes, slurm resource manager, etc. I use Emacs to edit my files as do some of the researchers of my investigation center. One day I detected that some daemons hunged. I discovered that the kernel was killing some processes because the system went out of memory. I couldn't reproduce the error anymore, and the thing seemed to occurr on very random times. Since this day, I limited with limits.conf the user stack to 15Gb. (my server has 16gb, and consumes normally no more than 1gb). Today, when I was doing some tasks I could see what is causing the problem. It's Emacs!. There seems to be a user that uses emacs and that does logout from his session without exiting it. The access to the server is done by ssh. I will try to install the latest 23.3 version with .tar.gz package but I like to use the Yum package if it's possible in order to keep the installation as clean as possible. Should I report it to some place? it seems someone else already has: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732157 There's a proposed patch attached to that BZ. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
Re: Memory leak in Emacs 23.1 - SL.6.1
Thanks to all! I didn't search very well into the bugs database. Sorry. Jean-Paul, I took a look to your repos but I didn't find any emacs package. I can only see: - emacs-doxymacshttp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/slsoc/soc/SRPMS/repoview/emacs-doxymacs.html- Doxygen add-on for Emacs/XEmacs - emacs-w3http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/slsoc/soc/SRPMS/repoview/emacs-w3.html- W3 package for Emacs - emacs-sdcchttp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/slsoc/soc/x86_64/repoview/emacs-sdcc.html- Emacs extensions for SDCC But no emacs and emacs-common package. Best regards. Felip 2011/10/25 Stephan Wiesand stephan.wies...@desy.de Hello Felip, On Oct 24, 2011, at 21:48, Felip Moll wrote: Recently I installed a SL6.1 Cluster with 16 nodes, slurm resource manager, etc. I use Emacs to edit my files as do some of the researchers of my investigation center. One day I detected that some daemons hunged. I discovered that the kernel was killing some processes because the system went out of memory. I couldn't reproduce the error anymore, and the thing seemed to occurr on very random times. Since this day, I limited with limits.conf the user stack to 15Gb. (my server has 16gb, and consumes normally no more than 1gb). Today, when I was doing some tasks I could see what is causing the problem. It's Emacs!. There seems to be a user that uses emacs and that does logout from his session without exiting it. The access to the server is done by ssh. I will try to install the latest 23.3 version with .tar.gz package but I like to use the Yum package if it's possible in order to keep the installation as clean as possible. Should I report it to some place? it seems someone else already has: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732157 There's a proposed patch attached to that BZ. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
Re: Memory leak in Emacs 23.1 - SL.6.1
On Oct 25, 2011, at 15:36, Felip Moll wrote: Thanks to all! I didn't search very well into the bugs database. Sorry. Jean-Paul, I took a look to your repos but I didn't find any emacs package. I can only see: • emacs-doxymacs - Doxygen add-on for Emacs/XEmacs • emacs-w3 - W3 package for Emacs • emacs-sdcc - Emacs extensions for SDCC But no emacs and emacs-common package. I built packages with the proposed fix from BZ. It seems to work, and fix the issue. If you're interested even though they had no real testing, find them in http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~wiesand/SL6/emacs/ Regards, Stephan Best regards. Felip 2011/10/25 Stephan Wiesand stephan.wies...@desy.de Hello Felip, On Oct 24, 2011, at 21:48, Felip Moll wrote: Recently I installed a SL6.1 Cluster with 16 nodes, slurm resource manager, etc. I use Emacs to edit my files as do some of the researchers of my investigation center. One day I detected that some daemons hunged. I discovered that the kernel was killing some processes because the system went out of memory. I couldn't reproduce the error anymore, and the thing seemed to occurr on very random times. Since this day, I limited with limits.conf the user stack to 15Gb. (my server has 16gb, and consumes normally no more than 1gb). Today, when I was doing some tasks I could see what is causing the problem. It's Emacs!. There seems to be a user that uses emacs and that does logout from his session without exiting it. The access to the server is done by ssh. I will try to install the latest 23.3 version with .tar.gz package but I like to use the Yum package if it's possible in order to keep the installation as clean as possible. Should I report it to some place? it seems someone else already has: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732157 There's a proposed patch attached to that BZ. -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
Re: Memory leak in Emacs 23.1 - SL.6.1
Hello Felip, I'm very ashamed. They are now... Though, they will not contains the BZ patch for 23.1, but maybe it was no longer needed. Best regards. On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 15:36 +0200, Felip Moll wrote: Thanks to all! I didn't search very well into the bugs database. Sorry. Jean-Paul, I took a look to your repos but I didn't find any emacs package. I can only see: * emacs-doxymacs - Doxygen add-on for Emacs/XEmacs * emacs-w3 - W3 package for Emacs * emacs-sdcc - Emacs extensions for SDCC But no emacs and emacs-common package. Best regards. Felip 2011/10/25 Stephan Wiesand stephan.wies...@desy.de Hello Felip, On Oct 24, 2011, at 21:48, Felip Moll wrote: Recently I installed a SL6.1 Cluster with 16 nodes, slurm resource manager, etc. I use Emacs to edit my files as do some of the researchers of my investigation center. One day I detected that some daemons hunged. I discovered that the kernel was killing some processes because the system went out of memory. I couldn't reproduce the error anymore, and the thing seemed to occurr on very random times. Since this day, I limited with limits.conf the user stack to 15Gb. (my server has 16gb, and consumes normally no more than 1gb). Today, when I was doing some tasks I could see what is causing the problem. It's Emacs!. There seems to be a user that uses emacs and that does logout from his session without exiting it. The access to the server is done by ssh. I will try to install the latest 23.3 version with .tar.gz package but I like to use the Yum package if it's possible in order to keep the installation as clean as possible. Should I report it to some place? it seems someone else already has: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732157 There's a proposed patch attached to that BZ. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany -- .-. J e a n - P a u l C h a p u t / Administrateur Systeme /v\ jean-paul.cha...@lip6.fr /(___)\ work: (33) 01.44.27.53.99 ^^ ^^cell: 06.66.25.35.55 home: 01.47.46.01.31 U P M C Universite Pierre Marie Curie L I P 6 Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris VI S o C System On Chip
hardware compatibility list
Hi, I have been searching for a hardware compatibility list for scientific linux, specifically for motherboards (which I have had a problem with in the past). I have a hardware supplier that has limited stock, so I am not free to choose from an extensive list and would like to be able to check particular motherboards for compatibility. Initial searches have not proved successful. Does such a list exist? Thanks, Scott -- Scott Williams email: willi...@nscl.msu.edu Physicist telephone: +1 517 908 7296 NSCLfax: +1 517 353 5967 Michigan State University 1 Cyclotron East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Re: hardware compatibility list
Hi, On Oct 25, 2011, at 17:18 , Scott Williams wrote: I have been searching for a hardware compatibility list for scientific linux, specifically for motherboards (which I have had a problem with in the past). I have a hardware supplier that has limited stock, so I am not free to choose from an extensive list and would like to be able to check particular motherboards for compatibility. Initial searches have not proved successful. Does such a list exist? have a look at https://hardware.redhat.com/ . Hardware certified for this distribution will very likely work with the corresponding SL release... Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: hardware compatibility list
On 10/25/2011 08:30 AM, Stephan Wiesand wrote: Hi, On Oct 25, 2011, at 17:18 , Scott Williams wrote: I have been searching for a hardware compatibility list for scientific linux, specifically for motherboards (which I have had a problem with in the past). I have a hardware supplier that has limited stock, so I am not free to choose from an extensive list and would like to be able to check particular motherboards for compatibility. Initial searches have not proved successful. Does such a list exist? have a look at https://hardware.redhat.com/ . Hardware certified for this distribution will very likely work with the corresponding SL release... Regards, Stephan Two points: Much of the certification is for RH 5 and earlier; presumably, if the hardware drivers exist on RHEL N-M, these also exist on RHEL N . I was looking for two systems upon which I know EL works -- HP 8530p and Lenovo G570 (only EL 6.1 and presumably later releases). Neither is listed. Another option (that I did with success): get the latest SL stand alone bootable image (as EUFI is not yet on the hardware and that probably will prevent the installation or booting of SL) -- currently: ftp://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/61/ and then choose i386 for a 32 bit version or x86_64 for a 64 bit version -- such as: SL-61-i386-2011-07-27-LiveDVD.iso burn the image to a DVD, boot the target system from this DVD, and check if everything works. Assuming that there is no special hardware (e.g., special external control interfaces or special mass storage hardware), test the 802.3 NIC, the 802.11 WNIC (if present, typically on a laptop), the video card (did Xwindows work?), the sound card, USB and IEEE 1394 (firewire) if present. If you need the integrated webcam, if present, then go through the procedures to activate the webcam and display the stream to the screen. If you need 802.16 (WiMAX) or Bluetooth, if present (typically, on a laptop), check these as well. If everything works, you probably have a compatible system (no proprietary hardware with MS only supplied drivers). If not, and you really want the unit, start hunting on the web and this list to discover if a Linux driver exists for the hardware, and if the driver has been ported to SL . Yasha Karant
Re: hardware compatibility list
Intel-branded motherboards are likely to be compatible, though you may need to get backported drivers for the NIC via ELRepo. On 25 Oct 2011, at 1018, Scott Williams wrote: Hi, I have been searching for a hardware compatibility list for scientific linux, specifically for motherboards (which I have had a problem with in the past). I have a hardware supplier that has limited stock, so I am not free to choose from an extensive list and would like to be able to check particular motherboards for compatibility. Initial searches have not proved successful. Does such a list exist? Thanks, Scott -- Scott Williams email: willi...@nscl.msu.edu Physicist telephone: +1 517 908 7296 NSCLfax: +1 517 353 5967 Michigan State University 1 Cyclotron East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Re: hardware compatibility list
I'll second this. Been using Intel-branded motherboards and NICs (ELrepo drivers) for quite a few years now without problems. Phong Nguyen wrote: Intel-branded motherboards are likely to be compatible, though you may need to get backported drivers for the NIC via ELRepo. On 25 Oct 2011, at 1018, Scott Williams wrote: Hi, I have been searching for a hardware compatibility list for scientific linux, specifically for motherboards (which I have had a problem with in the past). I have a hardware supplier that has limited stock, so I am not free to choose from an extensive list and would like to be able to check particular motherboards for compatibility. Initial searches have not proved successful. Does such a list exist? Thanks, Scott -- Scott Williams email: willi...@nscl.msu.edu Physicist telephone: +1 517 908 7296 NSCLfax: +1 517 353 5967 Michigan State University 1 Cyclotron East Lansing, MI 48824, USA -- Mr. Mark V. Stodola Digital Systems Engineer National Electrostatics Corp. P.O. Box 620310 Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA Phone: (608) 831-7600 Fax: (608) 831-9591
