* Thomas Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 30-Sep 07:44, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > > I am confused about the state of the 2.4.10 kernel. > > > > It seems that there are two VMs that are going to "fight it out" moving > > forward: the original one (in the ac line of code) and a new one (in the > > main line of code). > > > > Before this became clear, I was planning to move up to 2.4.10 from 2.4.4 > > as it seemed that things were converging to a stable core. > > Things are getting much more stable. Drivers especially. Linus seems to be > willing to work on core stuff still... > > > > > Can someone help me understand if I should move to the new VM or just > > wait for this to all get sorted out? What is being done for the next > > release of Debian? (I'm running 2.2r3 with Adrian Bunk's 2.4 packages). > > I would say move the either of the two VM's in 2.4.10[-acX]. There are some > real problems with the VM in 2.4.X (X<9) and interactions with other > subsystems. Things should really settle down once 2.5 starts. If you follow > lkml, there seems to be a fare amount of stuff that wants in NOW, and > conservatives think that makes the "stable" kernel more "unstable". Given > that some kernels haven't build w/o patch in a quick pre patch, I think the > conservatives are gloating. :) > > Thomas > PS: I have no idea where debian is going...I just follow it around.
I'll second that. I got a noticable performance boost and much better swap handling out of 2.4.10. It compiled cleanly and hasn't given me any trouble, yet. YMMV of course. Alex. ----------------------- My PGP public key can be found at http://www.tagancha.org/pgp ---------------- Public key ID and fingerprint ----------------- pub 1024D/6C5F196B 2001-08-17 Oleksandr V. Moskalenko (Alex) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint = EE63 C471 ADBA 5D80 ADFB 1054 DA28 6F32 6C5F 196B ----------------------------------------------------------------