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

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On 2016-09-27 15:22, Fernando Santagata wrote:
> 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!

Thanks for the feedback, I am therefore closing the bug.

Aurelien

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