kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:14:00PM +0000, Colin Watson >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Bah. Try 2.2.{15,16} or 2.4.0-testsomething. :) I'm running 2.4.0-test6 >> here with no problems (um, apart from the annoying truncate() bug that >> occasionally bites INN, but I know that's fixed in later kernels). > >No, don't. > >2.2.14 - 2.2.16 have remote root exploits.
Forgot about that, sorry. AFAIK 2.4 is fine, but I haven't read linux-kernel since Friday. >The VM message appears annoying, when it occurs, but not fatal, usually. >In my experience. It's (at least) been known to cause 10- to 15-minute freezes, and I think signals some VM instability beyond that. >Incidentally, does anyone have a good pointer to specific mentions of >this error message? I've been rolling through linuxhq and Kernel >Traffic, can't find anything since August or so. I know it was reported in http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0010.3/0428.html; I'm sure it should have been reported before that, but the quick searches I did didn't turn up anything useful. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]