On Tue, 27 May 2003 22:11, you wrote: > The RH 7.1 kernel is at 2.4.7, and the SuSE 8 kernel is at 2.4.19 -- > radical changes in Linux VMM have been made between the two versions. The > reasons the RH 7.1 sysctl values won't change is that their underlying > /proc filesystem objects are set with 0440 permissions ... in other words, > the kernel authors never intended for them to be changed. There aren't many > non-z/VM tuning options for the 2.4.7 kernel. I gave up on it last month. > I'm trying to think of a single advantage of staying back with RH 7.1, and > none jump to mind off hand. > > My heuristic findings are right in line with yours: SuSE 8 spanks RH 7.1 > handily.
If you don't care about vendor certifications, try building a kernel from the latest RHL 7.x src.rpm (not kernel-source!). No guarantees, it may be missing some S/390-related patches. Look for kernel-2.4.20-13.7.src.rpm -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
