[plug] Kernel 2.4.10

[Jason Nicholls]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:57:38AM +0800, Brad Campbell wrote:
> I upgraded last night from 2.4.9 to 2.4.10 with the
> preemptible kernel patches..
> All I can say is wow.. it's like supercharging my computer..

Hmm you've convinced me to try it out then ;) I dled and installed 2.4.10
on my main system yesterday but didn't apply the preemptible patches.

> The massive vm changes in 10 have solved most of my memory thrash
> problems, and the interactivity with the preemptible patches needs
> to be seen to be believed.
> 
> Compiling Xfree4, Xfree3, Kernel, running mozilla and Openoffice638
> and playing xmms in 96mb with no glitches and no pointer freezes,
> switching between vc's is smooth and quick, switching into/out of x
> is smooth and quick.. Even win4lin runs smoother and faster, although
> I doubt it's long term reliability as I had to massage the Win4lin
> 2.4.9 kernel patch to get it to compile and I'm no kernel hacker..

That sounds great for my laptop which is maxed out with only 96Mb of RAM.


Later,

Jason Nicholls
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