On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 04:38, Richard B. Thibaudeau wrote:
> Dear Sir / Madam.
>
> I'm using Mandrake-Linux PowerPack 9.0, with kernel 2.4.19-16mdk.
> It is very buggy, slow, etc. A week after a fresh installation, it
> generates about 50,000 files with zero bytes. I use it on a PI-233 with
> 114 Mb memory.
> I have downloaded Patch-2.4.20.bz2 at 4Mb. I have expanded that file to
> 22Mb.
> The documentation I read so far does not tell me what to do next.
> Make xconfig, make config or make menuconfig do not work.
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Richard Thibaudeau
G'day Richard,
Question - were you directed to download the patch for any particular
reason? Why I ask is that patching and recompiling the kernel ain't for
the feint of heart, mate - unless you're ready and willing to cause
yourself a few headaches here and there.
Patching the kernel doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to
optimise your system or get better performance out of it - truly. If
you're feeling that system speed is lagging and strange things are
happening, you might want to start out with looking at the system
overall and seeing where and what you can tweak and tune in order to get
rid of those zero byte files (are they core dumps perchance?) as well as
streamlining some things and tweaking your hard drive settings to get
more bang for your buck...
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