Issued:
2013-02-20
Updated:
2013-02-20

RHBA-2013:0358 - numad bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

numad bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated numad packages that fix one bug and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The numad packages provide a daemon for NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Architecture) systems. Numad monitors NUMA characteristics and manages placement of processes and memory to minimize memory latency.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • Prior to this update, the "-lpthread" linker flag was supplied from both the Makefile and from the spec file. As a consequence, the numad packages encountered linkage problems and failed to build when trying to rebuild these packages from the source rpm. With this update, the flag is supplied only from the specfile and rebuilding the packages no longer fails. (BZ#825153)

This update also adds the following enhancement:

  • This update upgrades the numad source code to version 20121015 to be fully supported by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. (BZ#830919)

All users of numad are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug and add this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • numad-debuginfo-0.5-8.20121015git.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • numad-0.5-8.20121015git.el6.i686.rpm
  • numad-0.5-8.20121015git.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • numad-0.5-8.20121015git.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • numad-debuginfo-0.5-8.20121015git.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • numad-debuginfo-0.5-8.20121015git.el6.i686.rpm
  • numad-0.5-8.20121015git.el6.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information