Re: [uml-user] uml stuck on "Locating the top of the address space"

[richard -r. w. <ric...@gm...>]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Joakim Arfvidsson
<jo...@ar...> wrote:
> It finds the bottom address, but is stuck forever on top address.
>
> This is all on an Amazon EC2 instance (so it's running within some Xen vm).
> Host is running 32 bit RedHat.
>
> Command line and results:
>
>> ./kernel32-3.2.5 -v ubda=/tmp/cow4:Debian-Squeeze-x86-root_fs mem=256m
> Locating the bottom of the address space ... 0x0
> Locating the top of the address space ...
>
> Freaky thing is that this was working fine on the same machine yesterday,
> but started failing today. Now fails consistently, never getting farther
> than here. I can't think of anything I changed about the setup.
>
> Any help appreciated!
>

Is the UML process consuming CPU time at this point?
The calculation happens here:
arch/x86/um/os-Linux/task_size.c

Which host kernel are you using?

-- 
Thanks,
//richard