[spam][crazy] Diagnosing an Explosive Failure

[k]

left the branch checkout out of the steps at top:

On 1/5/22, k <gmkarl at gmail.com> wrote:
> # build vmem-wip of mimalloc
> git clone https://github.com/xloem/mimalloc
> mkdir mimalloc/build
> cd mimalloc/build

git checkout vmem-wip # should go here

> cmake ..
> make -j
> cd ../..
>
> # use it to build pytorch
> git clone https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch
> cd pytorch
> LD_PRELOAD=../../mimalloc/build/libmimalloc.so VMEM_PREFIX=vmem
> python3 setup.py build
>
> I've tried the above just about two or three times on a raspberry pi
> running ubuntu 64.  When I do, a SIGKILL is sent ijmmediately to all
> running processes.  My PTYs close.  GDM restarts its session.  Quite