Comment 21 for bug 720095

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote : Re: [Bug 720095] Re: vsftpd causes a vmalloc space leak in Lucid

Excerpts from Rachel Greenham's message of Sat Apr 16 11:25:10 UTC 2011:
> I think I've been experiencing this bug on a production vmware guest
> server running Lucid with vsftp being connected to frequently by client
> machines.
>
> The thing is, this bug shows as being "fix committed" - and the
> implication I get from comment #18 is that the current production (ie:
> not backport) kernel has netns disabled. I'm all up to date, with
> kernel 2.6.32-30-server, and still seeing elevated netns cpu usage, and
> a general slowdown of other activity which I believe is related.
>
> Is there something we need to do specifically to ensure netns is
> disabled?

Rachel, Fix Committed means that the developers have it in their tree
but it hasn't been released yet. Presumably this means that netns will
be disabled in the next lucid kernel update.