On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:41:08PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 08:44:04AM -0800, Anthony Lau wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Did a really stupid thing and rsync'd away my working > > 2.4.9-benh0 directory and turned it into a 2.4.14-pre5-ben0 > > directory. > > > > It wouldn't be too bad if 2.4.14 was usable on my machine > > (PowerMac4400/200MHz 604e, 96MB RAM) but it's constantly > > swapping, swapping appears to be slower than in 2.4.9, and > > system is constantly "stuttering" (unlike 2.4.9 which > > "paused" only when massively swapping). > > > > Luckily I still have a working 2.4.9-benh0 kernel, but > > would like to have the source, too. > > then you better archive it when you sync it, benh's or any other rsync > tree for that matter does not guarentee existence even 5 seconds after > you finish the rsync, once a new revision is pushed the old source is > gone forever. > > for benh trees i recommend doing a clean sync, renaming it to the > date you synced like so: > > linux-2.4.XXpreYY-bh20001102 > > and changing the Makefile EXTRAVERSION to match. > > when you want to update it cp -a the entire tree to something else, > rsync and update the versions again. > > this way you will always know what version you are really running, and > what date it came from, -benh0 means nothing as it never ever changes, > the only useful version number there is for benh trees is the current > date (and even time in some cases).
I had a copy, but in a maniacal fit of HD cleaning, I nuked it. D'oh! I understand that -benh0 means nothing, but I figured just about any snapshot (or diff of a snapshot vs. vanilla 2.4.9) would do. I guess I will have to wait and see if 2.4.14-pre6 is better since Linus Torvald wrote that he had fixed the OOM-killer. I know that the snapshot of 2.4.14-pre5 I have appears to kill processes that I want up, but were idling. Very annoying when mutt or an X-shell suddenly quit because you were surfing the web with Mozilla and the kernel was swapping like mad (96MB phys RAM, 256MB VM). Anthony
