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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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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.