On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > And since my problems with this box seem to stem from kernel paging > > requests failing, it seems a new VM might go a long way to fixing my > > problems. > > Were you using the recommended (and very much required, at least for early > 2.4 kernels) 2 * RAM swap space? That can fix a *lot* of problems.
More than 2 * RAM, in fact. > > > Anything after 2.4.10 has been borked in one way or another (parallel port > > > issues, etc, etc. Read Kernel Traffic or LWN's kernel page for more info). > > After 2.4.10 - does this include 2.4.10, or is 2.4.10 relatively stable? > > Greater than only. :) 2.4.10 seems ok for me. The more recent ones have all > had silly little things that would Never Have Happened if Linus had opened > 2.5 and Alan was maintaining 2.4. Fair enough. Now all I've got to do is manage to download it - 31 meg and I get "unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic" on trying to install it. ARGH! I *hate* dialups! DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
