Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2012 04:11:40 +0100 | From | Roland Eggner <> | Subject | Re: backing up ext4 fs, system unresponsive, thrashing like crazy even though swap is unused |
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On 2012-11-25 Sunday at 23:56 +0000 Alan Cox wrote: > > Does anybody know a x86 distribution or live-CD using a 2.6.27.* kernel? > > Probably not a good idea, there are known exploitable holes in 2.6.27 era > kernels and nobody maintains anything that old.
“old” is relative …
cd git/linux-stable && git log -1 --date=iso v2.6.27.62 ........................................................ commit bc4e1a77b06519a01e7aed1125695598e27ddeb2 Author: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Date: 2012-03-17 14:03:53 +0100
Linux 2.6.27.62
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
… and surely less exploitable than a system suffering oom-killer actions.
Google "linux-2.6.27 download" gives some Ubuntu hits …
> I guess RHEL/Centos might work for you. > > I've not had any problems with leaks in 3.6 but there have been a few > reports and its clear that some obscure configurations trigger something > bad. > > Gnome 3 on the other hand leaks like a sieve.
For a system with 128 M total RAM, Gnome is obviously off topic.
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