[plug] Kernel 2.4.10

[Grahame Bowland]

On Tue, 2001-09-25 at 09:57, 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..
> 
> 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..

Which patch did you use? Was it the 2.4.7 patch, or am I looking in the
wrong place? I was looking at http://kpreempt.sourceforge.net/ :)

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