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


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