Tuesday, April 28, 2009
iozone: buffer overflow in ubuntu jaunty
In the latest Ubuntu Jaunty iozone immediately crashes with a nice *** buffer overflow detected *** message, that means it is practically unusable. Fortunately the cause of the bug is very simple: a wrong length used to copy a string by gethostname(). I posted a fix here.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
cgroup: io-throttle controller (v13)
A new version of my IO controller for Linux cgroups.
LWN.net coverage at http://lwn.net/Articles/328484/.
LWN.net coverage at http://lwn.net/Articles/328484/.
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