RHBA-2013:0358 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated numad packages that fix one bug and add one enhancement are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The numad packages provide a daemon for NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Architecture)
systems. Numad monitors NUMA characteristics and manages placement of processes
and memory to minimize memory latency.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Prior to this update, the "-lpthread" linker flag was supplied from both the

Makefile and from the spec file. As a consequence, the numad packages
encountered linkage problems and failed to build when trying to rebuild these
packages from the source rpm. With this update, the flag is supplied only from
the specfile and rebuilding the packages no longer fails. (BZ#825153)

This update also adds the following enhancement:

• This update upgrades the numad source code to version 20121015 to be fully

supported by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. (BZ#830919)

All users of numad are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
this bug and add this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant
to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 825153 - srpm rebuild fails

CVEs

(none)

References

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