[gentoo-dev] Re: glibc-2.7 stabilization

["Holger Hoffstaette" <holger@wizards.de>]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:02:17 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> some heads up here
> 
> glibc-2.7 has sat in ~arch for much longer than i would have liked.  the
> only real issue holding it back is nscd.  i never use this thing myself,
> but on some arches (like ppc), it's known to eat your cpu like a dirty
> C-globbler (where C is short for CPU).  on other arches, it's known to
> just cream itself for fun and then promptly exit.

Interesting - I saw nscd dying every so often with 2.6 (x86) but at least
for me that seems to have stopped since 2.7. Not sure what I'm doing wrong :)
On slower systems it certainly makes a noticeable difference.

-h


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