dovecot - Nov 2007 - login_process_size too small on x86_64 Fedora/RHEL

Hello,

as described in [253363], login_process_size of 32M is not enough on 64-bit
versions of Fedora and RHEL (and possibly other distributions as well).

[253363] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253363

As I understand it, there's an intersegment gap between read-only/executable
and writable segments of shared libs. That's probably a security feature or
something.

I found a similar issue here[1], if anyone wants a comment from someone who
understands it.

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2006-12/msg00033.html


Shall we just increase login_process_size or make it arch-dependent or
something?

Regards,
-- 
Tomas Janousek, SW Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:56 +0100, Tomas Janousek wrote:
> Shall we just increase login_process_size or make it arch-dependent or
> something?
Let's just increase the default to 64MB.

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Hello,

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:12:43PM +0200, Timo Sirainen
wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:56 +0100, Tomas Janousek wrote:
> > Shall we just increase login_process_size or make it arch-dependent or
> > something?
> 
> Let's just increase the default to 64MB.
Ok, I'll do this in RHEL 5.2 and some Fedoras. Thanks for your opinion.

-- 
Tomas Janousek, SW Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.