From: Roland Eggner <edvx1@systemanalysen.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@gmx.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: backing up ext4 fs, system unresponsive, thrashing like crazy even though swap is unused
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 04:11:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121126031140.GA26738@mobil.systemanalysen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121125235651.2f73a539@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk>
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On 2012-11-25 Sunday at 23:56 +0000 Alan Cox wrote:
> > Does anybody know a x86 distribution or live-CD using a 2.6.27.* kernel?
>
> Probably not a good idea, there are known exploitable holes in 2.6.27 era
> kernels and nobody maintains anything that old.
“old” is relative …
cd git/linux-stable && git log -1 --date=iso v2.6.27.62
........................................................
commit bc4e1a77b06519a01e7aed1125695598e27ddeb2
Author: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Date: 2012-03-17 14:03:53 +0100
Linux 2.6.27.62
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
… and surely less exploitable than a system suffering oom-killer actions.
Google "linux-2.6.27 download" gives some Ubuntu hits …
> I guess RHEL/Centos might work for you.
>
> I've not had any problems with leaks in 3.6 but there have been a few
> reports and its clear that some obscure configurations trigger something
> bad.
>
> Gnome 3 on the other hand leaks like a sieve.
For a system with 128 M total RAM, Gnome is obviously off topic.
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Roland
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2012-11-25 19:30 ` Dimitrios Apostolou
2012-11-25 22:41 ` kmemleak failure (was Re: backing up ext4 fs, system unresponsive, thrashing like crazy even though swap is unused) Dimitrios Apostolou
2012-11-25 23:19 ` Dimitrios Apostolou
2012-11-25 22:59 ` backing up ext4 fs, system unresponsive, thrashing like crazy even though swap is unused Roland Eggner
2012-11-25 23:56 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-26 3:11 ` Roland Eggner [this message]
2012-12-06 14:20 ` Jan Kara
2012-12-06 15:15 ` Dimitrios Apostolou
2012-12-06 16:43 ` Jan Kara
2012-12-07 15:26 ` Dimitrios Apostolou
2012-11-25 15:03 Dimitrios Apostolou
2012-12-02 12:44 ` Dimitrios Apostolou
2012-12-02 22:50 ` Roland Eggner
2012-12-02 23:56 ` Dimitrios Apostolou
2012-12-03 17:43 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-12-03 18:47 ` Eric Paris
2012-12-03 19:35 ` Dimitrios Apostolou
2012-12-03 20:00 ` Dimitrios Apostolou
2012-12-03 18:03 ` Roland Eggner
2012-12-03 19:25 ` Dimitrios Apostolou
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