Re: 2.6.7-mm2: random problems with mmap

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Tue Jun 29 2004 - 05:32:10 EST


On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Peter Lundkvist <p.lundkvist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I have problems running cyrus lmtpd; it fails randomly after
> > fetching 30-50 mails. I have only seen this problem in
> > 2.6.7-mm2 (-mm1 was ok, have not tested -mm3 yet).
>
> The "flexible-mmap" patch was rather broken. It was dropped for -mm3 and a
> fixed version will be in -mm4.

Ahh, that could perhaps explain why I was getting strange errors from
ldconfig about being unable to mmap certain libraries when I was using
-mm2 (-mm3 works). I'll be sure to watch out for that behaviour with -mm4


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Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@xxxxxx>
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