Hi David, > Correct me if I'm wrong, but Raq doesnt ship with MySQL.
That's right. But many people have MySQL on their RaQs, which they either installed as unofficial and unsupported PKG, by compiling it from the sources or by installing the proper RPMs. MySQL (if utilized heavily) appears to contribute to the rapid memory decay in the affected servers. > What package of MySQL would be problematic? Any package? Basically any application not limited to MySQL or where you got that one from. The underlying problem apparently has to do with the way how the operating system allocates and manages memory. So it revolves around either malloc() or the so called garbage collection. MySQL just happens to make many calls to memory when it's utilized a lot, so it can accelerate the process which leads to ending up without usable free memory for new processes. >From what I've heard many people have downloaded the glibc patch, but so far it appears to affect only a limited and overseeable number of RaQs, while others appear to run fine. So I think it's safe to say that you should not be alarmed, but just aware of the potential problem which might or might not affect you. -- With best regards, Michael Stauber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix/Linux Support Engineer _______________________________________________ cobalt-security mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-security
