Fedora EPEL 6 Update: jemalloc-2.2.5-1.el6

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2011-5055
2011-11-22 20:49:34
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Name        : jemalloc
Product     : Fedora EPEL 6
Version     : 2.2.5
Release     : 1.el6
URL         : http://www.canonware.com/jemalloc/
Summary     : General-purpose scalable concurrent malloc implementation
Description :
General-purpose scalable concurrent malloc(3) implementation.
This distribution is the stand-alone "portable" implementation of jemalloc.

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Update Information:

This new upstream release is a bugfix release. From the upstream changelog:

- Fix huge_ralloc() race when using mremap(2).  This is a serious bug that could cause memory corruption and/or crashes.
- Fix huge_ralloc() to maintain chunk statistics.
- Fix malloc_stats_print(..., "a") output.

New upstream release

From the upstream release notes:

jemalloc 2.2.3 is now available. This version fixes numerous bugs related to heap profiling.

For the complete ChangeLog, see:
http://www.canonware.com/jemalloc/ChangeLog.html

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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update jemalloc' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
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