Memtest problem / my kernel question

[Torgo Jr]

Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> Torgo Jr <agarris@voyager.net> writes:
> 
> > On the machine which I've reported some strange problems
> > before:  I ran "memtest 50000000", and the output is mostly
> > just lines like:
> >
> > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd
> 
> Yeah, the 2.2.x VM isn't too stable.  If you go into swap, you
> can break things.  This is being fixed, hopefully, for 2.4.x;
> 2.0.x also has a more solid VM.  (Alan Cox has commented on this
> in the linux-kernel mailing list.)

Ok, speaking of 2.4.x, will a machine running 2.2.x need 
any additional stuff to run 2.4.x?  Any glibc upgrades or 
anything, or can we just download 2.4.x and start the 
compile process?

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