diff --git a/mysql-ndb-stacksize.patch b/mysql-ndb-stacksize.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aaf246d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mysql-ndb-stacksize.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+Raise minimum stack size in ndb code to be a uniform 32K (64K on 64-bit
+platforms).  This is in response to an episode where glibc needed 8K of
+stack to run malloc(), resulting in ndbd crashing at launch.  While that
+was acknowledged to be a glibc bug (see bz #494631), byte-shaving here
+isn't any better an idea than it is in the main mysql server.
+
+Note: the request gets rounded up to at least PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, which
+is 128K on PPC; otherwise we would need to do something about including
+the stack guard size explicitly, since it's so much larger on PPC than
+elsewhere.  At some point we might want to use our my_setstacksize()
+hack in NdbThread_Create().
+
+
+diff -Naur mysql-5.1.33.orig/storage/ndb/src/kernel/blocks/ndbfs/AsyncFile.cpp mysql-5.1.33/storage/ndb/src/kernel/blocks/ndbfs/AsyncFile.cpp
+--- mysql-5.1.33.orig/storage/ndb/src/kernel/blocks/ndbfs/AsyncFile.cpp	2009-03-13 17:54:07.000000000 -0400
++++ mysql-5.1.33/storage/ndb/src/kernel/blocks/ndbfs/AsyncFile.cpp	2009-04-15 14:00:04.000000000 -0400
+@@ -106,8 +106,8 @@
+ AsyncFile::doStart() 
+ {
+   // Stacksize for filesystem threads
+-  // An 8k stack should be enough
+-  const NDB_THREAD_STACKSIZE stackSize = 8192;
++  // don't make this too small
++  const NDB_THREAD_STACKSIZE stackSize = 32768;
+ 
+   char buf[16];
+   numAsyncFiles++;
diff --git a/mysql.spec b/mysql.spec
index 8e2b572..a9cf83e 100644
--- a/mysql.spec
+++ b/mysql.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name: mysql
 Version: 5.1.33
-Release: 1%{?dist}
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 Summary: MySQL client programs and shared libraries
 Group: Applications/Databases
 URL: http://www.mysql.com
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Patch5: mysql-install-test.patch
 Patch6: mysql-stack-guard.patch
 Patch7: mysql-plugin-bug.patch
 Patch8: mysql-setschedparam.patch
+Patch9: mysql-ndb-stacksize.patch
 
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root
 BuildRequires: gperf, perl, readline-devel, openssl-devel
@@ -172,6 +173,7 @@ the MySQL sources.
 %patch6 -p1
 %patch7 -p1
 %patch8 -p1
+%patch9 -p1
 
 libtoolize --force
 aclocal
@@ -637,6 +639,10 @@ fi
 %{_mandir}/man1/mysql_client_test.1*
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Apr 15 2009 Tom Lane <tgl@redhat.com> 5.1.33-2
+- Increase stack size of ndbd threads for safety's sake.
+Related: #494631
+
 * Tue Apr  7 2009 Tom Lane <tgl@redhat.com> 5.1.33-1
 - Update to MySQL 5.1.33.
 - Disable use of pthread_setschedparam; doesn't work the way code expects.