On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:49:01AM -0800, Chuan-kai Lin wrote: > I propose updating the fam packages in stable (lenny) and oldstable > (etch) to fix the long-standing bug of occasional 100% CPU usage. > > The fix is very simple: linking famd with librt and libpthread. I am > not familiar with the inner workings of this fix, but it is proposed by > Wil Evers on the fam mailing list [1]. Since I introduced this fix in > fam 2.7.0-14 in July 2009, there have been no reports of either this bug > reoccurring, or regressions caused by this fix. > > Since there are still some stable and oldstable users who would like to > see this bug fixed [2], I would like the release team to consider > accepting this fix in both stable and oldstable. Attached are the > incremental patches from current fam sources in stable and oldstable; I > have tested the patches in the appropriate chroot environments and they > both build fine. wow, it didn't even make it into the bug tracker. Please, pretty please, get that issue fixed in stable and oldstable. The argument in Wil's mail seems convincing. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Stable Release Manager `. `' xmpp:phil@0x539.de Wanna-Build Admin `- finger pkern/key@db.debian.org
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