Re: [Sheflug] Linux 2.4.8

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris J <Chris> writes:

    >> As subject ;)
    >> 
    >> Possibly the most difficult kernel to compile, or possibly I've
    >> forgotton how it all works. Never mind, it's on now. And it
    >> feels noticibly faster than the previous edition I was using
    >> (2.4.0 .. not exactly a 'classic' version of linux :), and
    >> doesn't seem to be continually hitting swap on my machine
    >> anymore!

    Chris> Well I'm grabbing it now and choking rather violently over
    Chris> the filezise ...  it's a wopping 26MB...

    Chris> Linux has certainly grown up over the years...

There was a recent(ish) article linked from Slashdot, which actually
covers this very topic - how the Linux kernel has expanded over the
years, and just what all the code is doing.

See http://euclid.nmu.edu/~benchmark/

and more specifically

http://euclid.nmu.edu/~benchmark/index.php?page=lines

I think we can all safely say the VM has been in a bit in a state, and
has changed once again with this release.

I'm gonna have to look at the stuff about XFree 4.1.x DRM as well...

Nevertheless, unless you're seriously stressing 2.4.x to the point of
being out of memory, it seems to be OK.

I was a little worried when my web host moved from 2.2.19 to 2.4.6,
but everything seems to be pretty smooth.

My gateway machine is running 2.4.x...

[root@harmonics /root]# uptime
 11:09pm  up 105 days,  6:37,  1 user,  load average: 1.07, 1.02, 1.00

as is my own workstation...

[baz@flux baz]$ uname -a && uptime
Linux flux.localdomain 2.4.6-pre5 #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 22:52:19 BST 2001 i686 unknown
 11:16pm  up 50 days, 23:49,  4 users,  load average: 2.06, 2.09, 2.05

Can't be that bad, I guess :-)

Baz.
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