> people report near 100% compatibility Well let me be the first to report near 100% computability. I'm currently running 2.4.3 on my production boxes running DNS, SMTP, Apache, MySQL, IMAP, etc., etc. and lots of other potato packages without trouble. You only need to grab a handful of packages out of Woody to run 2.4.x (details are under Documentation in Changes of the kernel source) which is easy using apt-get. Give 2.4.x a try. It runs *much* faster then 2.2.18. Just don't use it as a firewall yet! My questions about running 2.4.x was intended to be more specific to the original poster and why *he* wasn't thinking about running 2.4.x for this *specific* application. > Btw, does the RH patch work reliably? Any compatibility issues? Does > everything run as normal?
The patched kernel worked fine on a couple boxes running very large Oracle databases. Problem is the RedHat patch was for 2.2.16 so it was a bit of work getting it right. You may try searching the net for a more recent patch... someone's got to have a 2.2.18 or 19 LFS patch somewhere! :-) I believe the only thing the patch does is provide a larger memory space in the kernel for the file descriptor so that the kernel can "see" the large file size, so it should not affect the usability of the kernel. Pete
