On Jul 9, 2006, at 4:38 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
Better support for h/w. (For example, you may want to install a
SATA card in your machine. I don't know how well 2.4 supports SATA.)
The 2.6 kernel is where all new features like "more efficient ext3"
are released.
Even if 2.4 does everything you need/want, still, upgrade to 2.4.32
and go to .33 when it is released soon.
Yeah, I know all that.
No amount of fiddling with hdparm helped when running 2.4 so I think
the problem lies elsewhere.
On 2.4 Memtest runs a complete cycle in ~2400 secs. No errors other
than the initial probes are reported.
Anyway, the problem goes away with a 2.6 kernel. This is with no
changes to BIOS or any of the package configurations. This gives
_me_ an acceptable solution....for now.
... there are those nagging doubts. Surely I'm not the only one
who's seen such behavior. From a community perspective it's
troubling to see a basic, no-frills, stable installation on a name-
brand machine produce such horrible results. It's shaken my
confidence that the problem will not reappear at the most inopportune
time.
--rich
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