Bug#660960: tight loop attempting to madvise(..., MADV_DONTNEED) locked memory

Aaro Koskinen aaro.koskinen at iki.fi
Tue Jul 31 15:35:44 UTC 2012


The madvice() busy loop will occur on all systems where page size is
bigger than 4KB. From supported architectures, e.g. MIPS and SPARC suffer
because of this.

See e.g. http://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2012/07/msg00043.html

iceweasel is unusable on these platforms. :-(



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