Bug#838913: libc6: There's probably a bug in libpthread, affecting several user programs.

[Fernando Santagata <nando@ipers.net>]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 03:10:17PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Fernando Santagata:
> 
> >> Usually it manifests in premature OOM killer invocations, but maybe
> >> something the reporter's system configuration changes that (perhaps it
> >> runs with vm.overcommit_memory=2?).
> >
> > That's it. I found this in /var/log/kern.log at the time I run a program
> > that crashed:
> >
> > Sep 27 10:37:31 gretux kernel: [ 77.250470] mmap: moar (2564): VmData
> > 135217152 exceed data ulimit 134217728. Update limits or use boot
> > option ignore_rlimit_data.
> 
> No, I think the above is unrelated.  It relates to a userspace ABI
> break related to the RLIMIT_DATA implementation.

Anyway, booting with the 4.6.0 kernel solves all the issues.

Thanks for the help!

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Fernando Santagata