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From: Alex Efros <powerman@××××××××.name>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] tcpserver use random amount of memory
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:16:55
Message-Id: 20130320171648.GA7409@home.power
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] tcpserver use random amount of memory by PaX Team
1 Hi!
2
3 On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 05:24:09PM +0100, PaX Team wrote:
4 > > Anyway, I've tried 3.8.3, and see no difference at all on 32-bit system:
5 >
6 > which grsec is that? the last bits of the fix went in like 2 days ago only,
7 > i think gentoo's ebuild uses an older patch than that. best would be if you
8 > tested the latest grsec yourself.
9
10 It's 4420_grsecurity-2.9.1-3.8.3-201303142235.patch.
11 I've updated it to 201303191956 and testing now…
12
13 On 64-bit system tcpserver still uses up to 60MB, but 5MB softlimit for
14 tcpserver doesn't work anymore, now it require 64MB softlimit (which makes
15 more sense).
16 On 32-bit system nothing changed, tcpserver still uses 60-300MB and
17 require about 300MB softlimit to run.
18
19 --
20 WBR, Alex.