On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 08:59 +0000, Russell King wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:53:27AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 12:37 +0530, Kedar Sovani wrote: > > > Hacky patch that mlock()s rpmdb's environment mmap(2)s, in order to > > > attempt to avoid spurious rpmdb corruption issues on Linux that seem > > > to be somehow related to pagein/pageout occuring. > > > > Ick. > > > > No. > > The relevent questions are: > > 1. which kernel version is this occuring with? > > 2. what device is the swap on? > > 3. which drivers are being used? > > If there's problems with paging causing corruption in userspace, it is > a *serious* issue which can't be fixed by throwing hacks at userspace > programs. > Hang on.. I recollect seeing this problem with rpm 4.4. Let me see if it is present in rpm 4.6 as well, or did this patch just creep in. I'll dig further... Kedar. _______________________________________________ fedora-arm mailing list fedora-arm@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-arm
