Dag Wieers wrote:
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote:
should explore the problem further with TUV and the CentOS community. If a fix is not forthcoming from TUV, I reluctantly suggest that we get together with the CentOS people and fork this portion of the distro, perhaps standardizing on Perl 5.10 . There are people in the Perl community ready to assist us.
While forking the whole perl subsection of the distro is a bit drastic, I am quite happy to have a perl in C5Plus. Does someone want to get in touch with Keith and get a summary on what needs fixing in this case ? Also - if the conversation was to take place on centos-devel list, would be much cooler.
Upstream have said the fix will be in 5U3, and considering that might be still a few months away, could we get something sorted before then ?
To be honest, if this problem was part of RHEL5 since its inception and only a few people until now have actually been bugged by it. I don't see a good reason to release something now only because someone was able to make a big poo out of it and got to slashdot.
I don't know whether I've been affected by the problem or not, and I don't think many who don't do their own perling would. A lot of the things I run are set to run when I'm not present, and if I'd upgraded my C4 systems to C5 I might not notice if some jobs went from taking a few minutes to an hour and more, depending of course, on how many: assuredly, if the system went to loadaverage >20 I would. And, I have a C5 box that does do this, and I don't know why. It is, however, a fresh install and not an upgrade.
And I don't particularly think that Perl is the problem, though it could be.