From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 13:50:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 13:50:15 -0400 Received: from jive.SoftHome.net ([204.144.231.93]:29901 "EHLO softhome.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 13:50:06 -0400 From: "John L. Males" Organization: Toronto, Ontario, Canada To: Doug McNaught Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 13:49:51 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Question Re AC Patch with VM Tuneable Parms for now Reply-to: jlmales@softhome.net CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3B94DBFF.1248.396225@localhost> In-Reply-To: "John L. Males"'s message of "Tue, 4 Sep 2001 02:30:08 -0500" In-Reply-To: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Doug, Thanks for taking the time to reply and refreshing my memory about menu oldconfig. I imply from your reply that there is no carry forward feature via the menu xconfig. I guess it was wishful thinking in my original message there might be. Not an big issue, just thought I ask in case I missed something in reading and searching the kernel doc. Thanks for tip that the tuneable VM items may be implemented via /proc. Regards, John L. Males Willowdale, Ontario Canada 04 September 2001 14:49 mailto:jlmales@softhome.net To: jlmales@softhome.net Copies to: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question Re AC Patch with VM Tuneable Parms for now From: Doug McNaught Date sent: 04 Sep 2001 10:59:55 -0400 > "John L. Males" writes: > > > Can someone advise me if the "Make several vm behaviours tunable > > for now" as of the 2.4.9-ac4 patch are implemented in the kernel > > .config file? If so is there an easy way to carry forward a > > 2.4.8 version of the .config file using "make xconfig" so that I > > do not have to set all the setting I have made from scratch? I > > get the sense from the Kernel documentation that one can run a > > process that will ask one only those parameters that have been > > changed or added rather that all of them, but best I can tell > > this is a console y/n/?? type response. > > You have to do the carry-forward on the command line, using > 'make oldconfig'. It will prompt you to answer any questions that > aren't in the old config file, which will usually be fairly few. > So it's not that bad, and you only have to do it once per upgrade. > > Once you've done it, you can use 'menuconfig' as usual to tune your > configuration. > > BTW, it's quite likely (though I haven't looked at it) that the > VM tunables are in /proc rather than being config options. > > -Doug > -- > Free Dmitry Sklyarov! > http://www.freesklyarov.org/ > > We will return to our regularly scheduled signature shortly. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBO5UiNeAqzTDdanI2EQIPigCgoEPsa9QqvFPcZ/TbGZUPCxaLe20AnRN6 PJ60mqjFcKquI2lqGD4daWKb =yLPc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- "Boooomer ... Boom Boom, how are you Boom Boom" Boomer 1985 - February/2000