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


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