"compromising the Ubuntu/Debian update mechanism"

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:35:12 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>hi,
>Am Mittwoch, den 31.08.2016, 11:03 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
>> See
>> 
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-devel/2016-August/008
>> 144.html
>>   
>
>well, thats only relevant to cloud server providers and you can easily
>avoid it by:
>
>echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run
>(indeed at the cost of performance and and memory consumption of your
>cloud VMs)
>...

Thank you Oli,

I was  confused, since I thought I might have translated the text
incorrectly, but because I have not heard of this on other mailing
lists, I had doubts that it is such a drama.

Regards,
Ralf