[Users] Re: Difference in privvmpages accounting between 2.6.8 and 2.6.9-023stab040.1

Ligesh myself at ligesh.com
Mon Mar 5 05:23:29 EST 2007


On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:03:59PM +0300, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> Ligesh,
> 
> I answered in the bug:
> http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484
> 
> Both kernels are correct. This is due to execschield which creates some
> interesting mappings on its behalf. Investigating the reasons of it.
> To turn this 2.6.9 behaviour off boot the kernel with noexec=off
> 

 Yeah, It works fine with noexec=off. It did create some confusion for some time, resulting in some minor altercation between vps hosting providers and their customers on the question of memory usage (accusations of fraud etc :-).

 Thanks.




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