Re: [Sheflug] Linux 2.4.8

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

Not to gloat (well, yes actually) but I was playing around with my Linux
box at work, and tried to grab 2.4.7 direct from ftp.kernel.org.

840KB/s (yes thats bytes)

Rather happy with this situation, I think!

Craig


On 12 Aug 2001 23:20:35 +0100, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> >>>>> "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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