[ale] Real puzzler

Dow_Hurst dhurst at mindspring.com
Sat Apr 29 14:28:42 EDT 2006


Michael,
New version of Nvidia driver fixes some important bugs.  You might want to check it out.
Dow


-----Original Message-----
>From: "Michael B. Trausch" <fd0man at gmail.com>
>Sent: Apr 26, 2006 5:10 PM
>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>Subject: Re: [ale] Real puzzler
>
>On Tue April 25 2006 23:52, Ben Coleman wrote:
>>
>> Would running a 2.6 kernel have changed the Reiser FS enough to not be
>> able to mount on 2.4?  If that's not the problem, I'm real puzzled.
>>
>> Real problem is that on the Slackware 10.2 system, I'd rather like to be
>> able to go back to 2.4, as on 2.6 *something* (I'm suspecting the
>> distributed.net personal proxy, as when it is killed, the bloating seems
>> to stop) is bloating its memory usage enough to invoke the oom-killer. 
>> I'd like to be able to go back to 2.4 until I can figure out just what is
>> going on memory-wise with 2.6.
>>
>> Ben
>
>Ben,
>
>First things first, you may want to check your system clock:
>
>> Message was signed on 12-31-1969 18:59 with unknown key 0xAAD2044F.
>> The validity of the signature cannot be verified.
>
>That's not a good thing.  :-)
>
>As far of the rest of your problems, however, I haven't a clue.  I've been 
>using a 2.6 system for quite some time now, and I have had no kernel 
>problems with it, or problems with any software running on it, save for the 
>nVidia binary drivers (though, that's not the kernel's fault).
>
>	- Mike


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