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Linux Kernel 2.4.10
erinntriggs writes "Kernel 2.4.10 is out and available at the usual places." You know the drill people! Time to make bzImage and wreck those glorious uptimes.
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Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste.
James Brents
I read on Linux kernel (I'm a lurker, but not a kernel hacker) that the current XFS patch contains a lot of cruft carried over from Irix. It helps SGI to keep the code base mostly the same as Irix, but it offends the sensibilities of the Linux hackers who don't want to have an Irix compatibility layer tacked on to their nice clean kernel.
I'm not sure what the compromise will be, but I'm sure they'll work something out. I wouldn't count on anything too early in 2.5.x - it'll take time to make whatever changes are agreed upon.
It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. - Abraham Maslow
This is rubbish. The reason that Linux 2.4.x systems get into swap when running XMMS is because they read from the disk a lot, and they only need the page they read once. Consider an XMMS process that reads 4GB of MP3 from the disk over the course of a day. Well, Rik's VM is going to push *all* other processes out of memory in order to cache all of those disk pages that nobody ever wants to see again. Obviously this is the wrong policy. But, Rik the megalomaniac is never going to fix it because he's convinced that his system is the best thing that can be acheived by human beings. He should get together and have a beer with Hans Reiser.
I assume you don't have one of those computers with two (or more) redundant power supplies in it, as in some Dell Poweredge servers. I had to move our file server from one room to another, but didn't want to shut it down just for that. So, I got a long power cord and attached it to the 2nd power supply and disconnected the first. Then I moved the computer towards the other room and switched it to use the other power supply and disconnected the now-unneeded power cord. I repeated this procedure a few times and finally the server was happily churning in its new place, all without rebooting. Using this method for moving the computer was absolutely unnecessary, as there was nobody at work at that time (except for me), but at least I managed to keep the high uptimes :)
Unfortunately nearly the whole city lost its electricity for a few hours just a few days after I had moved the computer. Damn lightning strikes.. And as Murphy's law dictates, our UPS was just having its battery replaced so it didn't help in this case. Bummer.
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