Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
3. Fedora default prelink flags are:
# Options to pass to prelink
# -m Try to conserve virtual memory by allowing overlapping
# assigned virtual memory slots for libraries which
# never appear together in one binary
# -R Randomize virtual memory slot assignments for libraries.
# This makes it slightly harder for various buffer overflow
# attacks, since library addresses will be different on each
# host using -R.
PRELINK_OPTS=-mR
I haven't changed those... should I?
Remove the R option from above. That will cause you to have a VM layout
with less gaps and more contiguous memory. If this still doesn't work,
you will have to look at /proc/<pid>/maps to see why the address space
is so fragmented.
Rob
