linux hogging memory

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Jun 4 01:06:27 UTC 2004


On Thursday 03 June 2004 19:28, Dave Jones wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 07:23:05AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
> > > > Upgrade to 2.6.6 if you can. Things are better there and FC1
> > > > can handle 2.6.x out of the box (that is, no need to upgrade
> > > > module tools and
> > >
> > > other > stuff)
> > >
> > >Except for you needing to pass vdso=0 on the boot command line.
> >
> > ???
> >
> > What's that?
>
>There's an incompatability between the vsyscall code in the FC2
>kernels, and the glibc in FC1. The fix is to either upgrade glibc
>(painful -- might as well just go to FC2), or disable the vsyscall
>code with vdso=0
>This isn't necessary for upstream kernels btw.
>I lost the beginning of this thread, so I'm unsure you meant
>the FC2 kernels or upstream kernels.
>
>		Dave

Well, in my case Dave, its been src's from kernel.org all along.

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