To NX or not to NX

[Tom Brinkman]

On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:23 am, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 10:02:44AM +0100, Joachim Frieben wrote:
>  > -------- Original-Message --------
>  > Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:58:24 -0500
>  > From: Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
>  > To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
>  > Subject: Re: To NX or not to NX
>  >
>  > > There's a 2.6.19 based update in the works, should be out
>  > > next week.
>  > >
>  > > 		Dave
>  >
>  > For those interested, you can already grab a preview at:
>  >
>  >   
>  > http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC6/1.2887.fc6
>  >
>  > "2.6.19-1.2887.fc6" did not settle my issues .. but maybe
>  > yours (?)
>
> note that this build doesn't have the fix for the mmap corruption
> problem which got quite a bit of attention last week.  I'll get a
> fixed build up there soon, but in the meantime, tread carefully
> with this one.
>
> 		Dave

   FWIW, I've been using 2.6.19-1.2887.fc6 (i686) on FC6-test for a 
few hours. No issues... tho I was surprised my hd*'s are still hd* 
rather than sd* as they are on rawhide. 

  rawhide;
$ df
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1             9.9G  4.5G  5.0G  48% /
/dev/sda1              92M   56M   32M  65% /boot
tmpfs                 502M     0  502M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb2              27G  5.7G   20G  23% /home
/dev/sda8              41G   25G   14G  65% /stor2
/dev/sdc1             151G  119G   25G  84% /stor4

  fc6-test;
 ~ $ uname -r
2.6.19-1.2887.fc6
 ~ $ df
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6             9.7G  4.7G  4.5G  52% /
/dev/hda1              92M   45M   42M  52% /boot
tmpfs                 506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda7              24G  4.5G   18G  20% /home
/dev/hda8              41G   26G   14G  66% /stor2
/dev/sda1             151G  124G   20G  87% /stor4
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    Tom Brinkman                        Corpus Christi, Texas