Bug 705309

Summary: numactl corrupts memory on 12 cpu systems
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: numactlAssignee: Anton Arapov <anton>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 5.5CC: anton, azelinka, jwest, nobody, pkovar, plyons, pm-eus, psklenar, tgummels
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: numactl-0.9.8-12.el5_6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Under certain circumstances, having an environment of three numa nodes resulted in a memory corruption, which had a negative impact on performance. This problem has been fixed in this update so that the memory corruption does not occur anymore.
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Last Closed: 2011-05-24 15:20:03 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 702488, 800431    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2011-05-17 10:48:05 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #702488 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.6 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-24 15:20:03 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0825.html

Comment 8 Petr Kovar 2011-06-15 15:40:13 UTC
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Under certain circumstances, having an environment of three numa nodes resulted in a memory corruption, which had a negative impact on performance. This problem has been fixed in this update so that the memory corruption does not occur anymore.