On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Ewan Mac Mahon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > I'm a little bit hazy on the details, but there are some slides from the > meeting here[1]: > http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=8&sessionId=1&resId=1&materialId=slides&confId=106641 THANKS! On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > I would say a bug in tcmalloc, not SL or RHEL. See for instance > > <http://code.google.com/p/google-perftools/issues/detail?id=305> > > The fix is to move to google perftools 1.7 Because of a problem with not running the current BIND release a couple of weeks ago, I would like to ask: a) is RedHat likely to choose to backport the fix to 1.6 or will it adopt 1.7 or leave as is until 5.7 or later? b) will Centos and/or SL follow RH exactly or will their approaches differ? IOW, how far does the "binary compatiblity" policy extend? kind regards/ldv