Plesk 9.2 and grsecurity

[dsadd]

I've installed plesk 9.2 on ubuntu 8.04.

The ubuntu 8.04 installation is a clean install except for plesk.
Sometimes, sever load goes thru the roof, the kernel calls oom-killer and ends up killing everything, plesk, mysqld, sshd, etc.

I've found a old thread on the forum that describes the exact specific issue that I am having without a resolution.

It's about grsec not allowing plesk to kill the sw-engine-cgi processes which end up using all the system memory, including swap.

Since ubuntu 8.04 is officially supported by plesk and I am using a clean install, I assume there is a fix available for this, however I've searched the KB and forums and didn't find a resolution.

Can someone point me the right way please?

Changing distro is not an option, since ubuntu 8.04 is supported.
Recompiling the kernel also is not, since it's the default kernel and I want to recieve updates via apt.

Thanks in advance.

 

[dsadd]

Bump!

I'm using plesk 9.2 on a ubuntu 8.04 clean install. This is supposed to be supported.

Did the people at parallels/plesk EVER TRY OUT the product on the supported OS?

 

[atomicturtle]

Well I know the solution, but it doesn't sound like you would be able to use it. In ASL we created an exception for the psaadm user, however this requires a rebuild of the kernel to put into place.

 

[dsadd]

For now I've disabled watchdog which was creating most of these runaway processes, and mixed with a killall in cron.daily.

But I hope a plesk maintenance version will fix this problem.