3 messages in com.mysql.lists.bugsRe: MySQL 3.23.42 crashing on linux k...
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gav...@songspy.com10 Oct 2001 17:00 
Sasha Pachev10 Oct 2001 17:17 
Andrei Errapart10 Oct 2001 18:05 
Subject:Re: MySQL 3.23.42 crashing on linux kernel 2.4.2
From:Andrei Errapart (andr@no.spam.ee)
Date:10/10/2001 06:05:53 PM
List:com.mysql.lists.bugs

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 06:17:55PM -0600, Sasha Pachev wrote:

On Wednesday 10 October 2001 18:01, gav@songspy.com wrote:

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This is my only suggestion of How-To-Repeat: CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE if not exists results TYPE=HEAP DROP TABLE results

(repeat this 10,000 times or so)

Let me know if there's anything else I can give you to help you out.

Gavin:

2.4.2 kernel is rather old and has numerous VM problems to begin with. I would recommend to start with an update to 2.4.10.

Escaping one trouble just to get into another ;=)

IIRC linus' version of 2.4.10 kernels has a serious problem in VM, namely, an ordinary user can crash the system simply by running ./vmlinux :(((

The problem shouldn't exist in 2.4.10-ac2.

Usually I do not watch for kernel upgrades (nor linux kernel mailing list), but bugs like this tend to get my attention.

Andrei