Re: Enigma stuck at 2.4.9?

[dsavage peaknet net]

Bero,

I should have said that I use the Rawhide kernels on my personal machines, but
never on a production system.

What we've seen lately is a pronounced slowdown in Red Hat's periodic releases
of production kernel updates. I know Red Hat keeps up with the various kernel
patches, and that the higher the patch-level of a particular minor kernel
release, the more highly "polished" it usually is.

Where RH and I differ in configuration management philosophy is their practice
of applying patches that first appear in a 2.4.16 kernel to their 2.4.9
production kernel. This makes it very difficult for anyone to determine what's
in Red Hat's kernel-2.4.9-xx and what's not.

Case in specific point: The new VM system AA introduced in 2.4.10 cured an awful
swap problem that led to simply horrible performance in releases 2.4.0 - 2.4.9.
Has it been been incorporated into the latest Red Hat *production* kernels?

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, bero wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, dsavage wrote:
> 
> > Rawhide kernels have been available for 2.4.10+ for some time now, but
> > production updates are apparently still based on 2.4.9. Is RH just being
> > ultra-conservative about the new VM introduced in 2.4.10? Comments? Speculation?
> 
> Red Hat has never released errata when the original version doesn't have 
> any problems... ;)
> 
> Also, making sure an updated kernel really works (on all types of 
> hardware...) is quite a bit of QA work.
> 
> But of course, there's nothing that prevents you from installing a rawhide 
> kernel on an otherwise enigma system - works nicely for me.


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