MJRay wrote:
Yes, .17 and .18 blew up quite spectacularly on tsw a few times. It seems that certain situations end up with swap being consumed and never
released.
.19 (or maybe .20 now?) cured the problem.
I've managed to avoid upgrading a kernel up till now. How tricky is it on a scale of 1 - 10 for someone slightly above the level of complete incompetence? Jen
I've managed to avoid upgrading a kernel up till now. How tricky is it on a scale of 1 - 10 for someone slightly above the level of complete incompetence?
apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19
Fairly easy, I'd say. Read the warnings, but you probably won't need to worry about them too much.
MJ Ray writes:
I've managed to avoid upgrading a kernel up till now. How tricky is it on a scale of 1 - 10 for someone slightly above the level of complete incompetence?
apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19
You get much better performance if you roll your own kernel, IME. The default Debian kernel contains a whole pile of cruft that you Just Don't Need.
Matthew
I've managed to avoid upgrading a kernel up till now. How tricky is it on a scale of 1 - 10 for someone slightly above the level of complete incompetence?
If you have some idea of what hardware is in the system (or a .config file hanging aroudn from last time), then it's pretty simple, really. Some people find the kernel-package package in Debian is helpful, but I tend not to use it. I recommend make menuconfig...
Matthew
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