Is there a specific Alan Cox series 2.4.X I should grab for ppc linux?

Is there a specific Alan Cox series 2.4.X I should grab for ppc linux?

[Kevin B. Hendricks]

Hi,

I really need to get 2.4.X stable on my machine.  Dan recommends the Alan
Cox series of 2.4.X if I am having VM trouble.

Is there a specific ppc linux tree I should grab to get Alan's latest with
ppc specific added or should I just go grab his latest direct from his
site?

Thanks,

Kevin

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Re: Is there a specific Alan Cox series 2.4.X I should grab for ppc linux?

[Keith Clayton]

Hi Kevin,

I tried 2.4.10 from kernel.org and it would lock hard once I needed VM.
I just compiled 2.4.10-ac8 this morning and so far so good.  I've got
112Mb on my machine and (conveniently enough) can run GNOME plus a few
apps before hitting swap.  So I took it right to the edge of physical
memory and then started Mozilla.  No problems.  With 2.4.10 (kernel.org)
this was certain death.

Previously I had 2.4.6 running which worked but would get very slow when
swapping.  Abnormally slow.  (Mouse would freeze temporarily while
swapping).  Not seeing that behavior so far.

Hope that helps a bit.  Not exactly a battle-tested kernel or anything
but so far I find 2.4.10-ac8 to be an improvement over <=2.4.6

Cheers,
Keith

On Mon, 2001-10-08 at 06:59, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I really need to get 2.4.X stable on my machine.  Dan recommends the Alan
> Cox series of 2.4.X if I am having VM trouble.
>
> Is there a specific ppc linux tree I should grab to get Alan's latest with
> ppc specific added or should I just go grab his latest direct from his
> site?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
>
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Re: Is there a specific Alan Cox series 2.4.X I should grab for ppc linux?

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:59:58AM -0400, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:

> I really need to get 2.4.X stable on my machine.  Dan recommends the Alan
> Cox series of 2.4.X if I am having VM trouble.

His current tree should be OK.  Or 2.4.10 under most circumstances, or
2.4.11-pre5 (which fixed a goofy bug in -pre4).

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