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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-16220
2011-11-21 22:11:56
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Name : jemalloc
Product : Fedora 16
Version : 2.2.5
Release : 1.fc16
URL :
http://www.canonware.com/jemalloc/
Summary : General-purpose scalable concurrent malloc implementation
Description :
General-purpose scalable concurrent malloc(3) implementation.
This distribution is the stand-alone "portable" implementation of jemalloc.
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Update Information:
This new upstream release is a bugfix release. From the upstream changelog:
- Fix huge_ralloc() race when using mremap(2). This is a serious bug that could cause
memory corruption and/or crashes.
- Fix huge_ralloc() to maintain chunk statistics.
- Fix malloc_stats_print(..., "a") output.
New upstream release
From the upstream release notes:
jemalloc 2.2.3 is now available. This version fixes numerous bugs related to heap
profiling.
For the complete ChangeLog, see:
http://www.canonware.com/jemalloc/ChangeLog.html
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ChangeLog:
* Sun Nov 6 2011 Ingvar Hagelund <ingvar(a)redpill-linpro.com> - 2.2.5-1
- New upstream release, closes #75618
* Sun Nov 6 2011 Ingvar Hagelund <ingvar(a)redpill-linpro.com> - 2.2.4-1
- New upstream release
* Thu Oct 13 2011 Ingvar Hagelund <ingvar(a)redpill-linpro.com> - 2.2.3-1
- New upstream release, closes #735057
* Mon Aug 1 2011 Ingvar Hagelund <ingvar(a)redpill-linpro.com> - 2.2.2-1
- New upstream release, closes #727103
- Updated no_pprof patch for 2.2.2
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #751618 - jemalloc-2.2.5 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751618
[ 2 ] Bug #735057 - jemalloc-2.2.3 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735057
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update jemalloc' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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