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Re: OF setting for Quik booting in a 7200



Ethan Benson wrote:
> 
> > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:10:03PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > ... Hmm, on one of my 7200s /dev/sda is on mesh id 0
> 
> the standard apple setup is the hard disk is id 0 cdrom id 3.
> 
> > Oh, well.  I'll compile a 2.2.18 or 19pre2 and test it with quik.
> 
> if you use 2.2.19 use pre13 or later, earlier versions didn't compile
> on powerpc.  pre13 has all the needed patches to fix all the powerpc
> issues that cropped up.
> 

Why was I able to compile 2.2.19pre2 and run 10 bonnie benchmarks at 256MB
each?  
This failed on 2.2.18.  pre3 and up had a lot of patches added that I didn't
want to have to deal with.

Specifically, I needed to fix the "VM: do_try_to_free_pages" problem in 2.2.18.

Andrea's VM global was reported to fix it, and that was first in 2.2.19pre2. 
I'm also working on getting FreeS/Wan on this comp and they suggest 2.2.17, so
I'd want the closest version to that I can get, and will handle the load.

Maybe quik had trouble with them, but I'm using bootx.

Mike



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