Re: Linux v2.5.41

Linus Torvalds
2002-10-07T19:17:13Z

On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Tons of stuff. Mucho merges with the "A-Team" (Alan, Al, Alexey, Andrew,
> Anton, Arjan, Arnaldo and Art), but the "M-Team" (Maksim, Marcel, Martin's
> and Mike) is a close runner up. The J's are doing well too.

Oh, and I totally forgot ..

The merge from Andrew merged in various VM counter updates, which change
/proc accounting in ways that make some of the system monitoring stuff
unhappy. In particular, you'll find "vmstat" dumping core, and "top" has a
few glitches too.

You can fix all of this by just upgrading to a newer "procps" package. Rik
maintains a procps-2.0.9 (many of the stats were his) at

http://surriel.com/procps/

I don't think there are ready-made binary packages, but maybe some
enterprising and helpful - and trustworthy - soul can do that and get
vendors to add it to their upgrade list (or at least make it available in
contrib).

Linus