A warning for Fedora 11 users with xorg-x11-drv-fglrx installed

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Not again!
thanks, for the warning

pulse auto did the same thing before and we patched it to limit logging
rate
but on fedora ML some people said that we should actually fix the logging
system


http://www.linux-archive.org/fedora-development/230807-messages-eat-my-harddisk-because-alsa-pulse.html

I quote

But still, I think the biggest issue here is that rsyslog doesn't
enforce any kind of rate limitting and is happy to let random users
fill up /var.

This is a first-class DoS. Simply do a "cat /dev/urandom | strings |
logger" and you can make the whole system go bonkers. And it won't
even be accounted to your own disk quota. Yay.

EOQ

On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:05:36 -0400, Stewart Adam <maillist at diffingo.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> xorg-x11-drv-fglrx and kmod-fglrx have been updated to the 9.4 beta
> which is originally found in Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) and have been patched
> for 2.6.29, so it should be working well with Fedora 11. However, one of
> the side effects of the 2.6.29 patch is that fglrx repeats the same few
> errors over and over again into /var/log/messages and /var/log/dmesg
> (the error itself seems harmless, as the driver continues to function
> correctly). I recommend that you check on these files every few days to
> make sure they aren't growing too quickly.
> 
> Regards,
> Stewart