Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Linux Kernel 2.4.10

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.

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.

1 of 403 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hmmm... swap by Jeffrey+Baker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.