Is there a chance of an update which will work with both privsep and compression at some point in the near future, or will we have to wait for SuSE 8.1 to get that?
It already DOES work, iff you have a 2.4 kernel. The problem is with missing features in the shared mem implementation in 2.2 and earlier kernels.
That's another problem - Olaf and Solar Designer have made a backwards compatibility patch for the older distributions. I have removed this patch from the 8.0 package earlier today (yesterday) because 8.0 doesn't come with 2.2 kernels any more.
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It's on our wishlist as well, yes. Compression is desireable whereever your link is weaker than your CPU.
yes yes... Adding the patch again right now since anon mmaps might not be supported at compile-time on one or more machines in our build farm. This is messy. Expect the update package for 8.0 as soon as it has passed our testing team.
The 8.0 package has another bug that needs a fix: Key generation in the start script. It's a bit of a mess...
Fixed.
Roman.
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