As far as the performance issues go, do you have enough swap? I've gotten out of the habit of using it on my workstation with 2.4.x, but according to Kernel Traffic 2.5.x has a serious swap addiction. If you don't have enough of it your machine *will* thrash.
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 02:53, Bob Raymond wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 03:35, Jerry McBride wrote: > > > > I think I've figured out something here... > > > > Up until tonight I've had ZERO luck compiling either 2.5.40 or 2.5.41... What I > > was doing "wrong"... was configuring the kernel for uniprocessor operations. > > Each and every time with multi-processor support turned off, the compile would > > abort to-wards the end of make bzImage with "undefined reference to... > > Dprintk"... Simply enabling multi-processor support has squashed that and > > compile continues normally... if it was ever normal... > > > > Anyways, I'm happily running 2.5.41. This beta stuff is really neat. 8*0... > > Have you considered applying -ac1 or -ac2? The purpose each time is to > fix stuff that doesn't compile. I've never had to select SMP. > Unfortunately the kernnel is still deadly slow, and for some reason > keeps me from typing in an e-mail address to write a new e-mail, and > keeps me from replying to mail, not sure exactly what it is, so I'm back > to 2.4.19. > > Bob Raymond > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
