Iain Conochie wrote: >>>>2.4.10 has dodgy VM... my advice, based on reading kernel traffic, is >>>>to use -ac if you absolutely need 2.4.10, use 2.4.9 if you don't. >>>> >>> >>>How about 2.4.12? The changelog for 2.4.11 >>>(http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.11) has some >>>VM tweaks, and 2.4.12 >>>(http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.12) has some >>>other more minor fixes. >>> >> >>*shrugs* >> >>All I know is, they almost completely replaced the VM for 2.4.10-linus and -aa. >> >>Alan Cox reckons they should've left that for 2.5, and my experience with the >>guy is that he knows what he's talking about. >> > > So there are basically 2 trees for the 2.4 kernel, yeah? 2.4.x-linus and > 2.4.x-ac. I had been running 2.4.9 but the ntfs driver was screwed and > wouldn't compile.
There's 2.4.x-aa, too. That's probably the most experimental. > I've been running 2.4 for at least 7 months @ home and have not had any > _major_ issues with it, but my laptop is another thing all together - I > have seen more stable win98 boxes. Mostly I think it is problems with the > display (there is an S3 Savage4 graphix card in it somewhere), and 2.4.5 > would lock & crash xmms... > > Anyway, AFAIK, the ac is the more 'experimental' tree, which I thought was > weird as Mr Cox usually seem to be one for stability over experimentation. > So you think that the -ac tree may be a better bet to use? It depends. The old VM wasn't terribly great either, y'see. Alan thought it would be best to stick with the old one in line kernels, and just try to increase the stability etc of it. Linus and Andreas opted to use Andreas's super-dooper new VM model. -- Alistair Davidson Read my comic, Bizmatch! http://www.altgeek.org/lord_inh/comic/index.html "You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you." _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
