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Re: recommended patches for 2.4.20



Once upon a time Rob Weir wrote @ Fri, 18 Apr 2003 20:51:07 +1000

> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 03:31:14AM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I recently compiled kernel 2.4.20
> > with all those patches floating around, I was wondering if any of them will be of any usefulness to me ?
> > "low latency, preemptible kernel, desktop optimization, ..........." ?
> > I'm mainly using my PC for: programming "C & perl+MySQL (CGI)", mp3s "mpg123 and rarely xmms"
> > net browsing -> phoenix
> > mail -> fetchmail/procmail/exim/sylpheed
> > 
> > on a cyrix 190 w 92 MB RAM ;)
> > I'm using pekwm+hpanel+some little dock apps i've developed!
> > 
> > Can anyone please give me some suggestions ?
> 
> Con Kolivas's -ck patchset seems to be popular...just don't use
> 2.4.20-ck5, it has some serious issues.  -ck4 and -ck6 seem to be OK,
> though.
> 
Thanks for replying,
No i understand
the ck5 was just the one i've used a few days before, and found a terrible degradation in the system performance "perhaps not the reason" ;)

I'll try with ck4 or 6,
Many thanks.

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