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

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 08:58:24PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> Earlier messages in this bug-report thread indicated use of Flash would
> also trigger the madvise() madness.  I'm "happy" (?) to report that
> visiting Flash-enabled web sites reliably triggers this condition on the
> Alpha platform for *all* releases of firefox/iceweasel after 9.0.1.
> 
> Michael Cree gets the nod for noting his backtraces ending in madvise()
> while we Alpha users were trying to figure out what was going on.
> 
> Mike H. -- Thanks in advance for any fix/workaround you can come up
> with.

Let me guess... alpha has non-4K page size.

Mike