Randolph S. Kahle wrote: >Can someone help me understand if I should move to the new VM or just >wait for this to all get sorted out? What is being done for the next >release of Debian? (I'm running 2.2r3 with Adrian Bunk's 2.4 packages).
If you're running a production server running 2.4.x kernels , you'll benefit a lot if you up get the upgrade to 2.4.10. New VM - it's got a better swap management system which results in almost 0 swap space use. However, I would not recommend such if you'll use it as development machine. I tried to recompile GCC-3.0.1 on it while creating my own linux from scratch system and it would always go with a segmentation fault during bootstrapping. I downgraded the kernel to 2.4.9 and the problem went away. Btw - I'm using GCC-3.0.1 so this somehow affects the results. However, I tried recompiling the kernel in 2.4.10 and it still works though. This is maybe due to the fact that recompiling gcc spawns a lot more dynamic variables into memory as opposed to recompiling the kernel. I may be wrong on this, but this is just what happened to me just some time ago. Paolo Falcone __________________________________ www.edsamail.com
