Re: RedHat 7.2: What version of kernel?

["Brune, Charlie" <Charlie.Brune@anheuser-busch.com>]

Thanks.

Question:  What is the relationship between the "rawhide" directory and the
directories under "beta"?  Is rawhide another beta, or is it a place to store
the "latest and greatest" rpm's?

Charlie

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Pritchard [mailto:steve@silug.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 10:31 AM
To: silug-discuss@silug.org
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.2: What version of kernel?


On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 09:37:11AM -0500, Brune, Charlie wrote:
> Any thoughts as to what version of the kernel will be in RedHat 7.2?

2.4.7-10 is the version number on it.  It seems to perform reasonably
well.

There is also a 2.4.9-0.18 in rawhide that seems decent.

> I'm hoping that it will be at least 2.4.10 after hearing in our FH
> meeting this month that 2.4.10 handles swap space much better.

The Red Hat kernels should preform pretty well also since they track
the -ac patches, which have had a stable VM for some time.  You need
at least 2.4.10 for a stock Linus kernel to perform reasonably well,
and even it is apparently still fairly broken.  (2.4.12 is out now,
BTW.)

I should also note that 2.4.10-ac* don't use the same VM that the
Linus kernels use either.

Steve
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