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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Chris Petersen <Chris.Petersen@synopsys.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: FIXED (was Re: PROBLEM:  Blk Dev Cache causing kswapd thrashing)
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:08:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031210180849.GA13303@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FD75B8A.21FA59D9@synopsys.com>

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:44:42PM -0500, Chris Petersen wrote:

 > It appears the block-device-cache/kswapd problem is indeed fixed in
 > 2.4.23 (yay!).
 > 
 > To confuse matters RedHat has released an RPM with 2.4.20-24.7 which
 > apparently contains later patches that include the fix.

2.4.20-24.7 contains two patches. Both security issues. (do_brk
and an nptl local DoS), nothing else (vs previous 2.4.20-20.7)
 
 > This can be
 > confusing because their 2.4.21-4EL kernel is busted (WRT this bug)

That kernel bears no relation whatsoever to 2.4.20-24.7
It's for a completely different product for one thing, with
very little in common between them (in terms of patches we add).

		Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-10 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311271649520.21568-100000@logos.cnet>
2003-12-10 17:44 ` FIXED (was Re: PROBLEM: Blk Dev Cache causing kswapd thrashing) Chris Petersen
2003-12-10 18:08   ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-12-10 19:01     ` Chris Petersen
2003-12-10 19:16       ` Dave Jones

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