I questioned if I should even report this... but here goes:
Until yesterday I was running 2.1.125... I couldn't get this kernel to
do anything strange since it came out. I heard all the raves in
performance increase do to the > 2.1.126 kernels so I upgraded to
2.1.128.
When I was recompiling gimp, with tkRat, and Netscape running it felt
like the machine was running out of ram. (I've got 128m of ram 128m of
swap) So I started a rxvt... and it never started... so I switched to
a VC and after 10 minutes or so I got a prompt and got logged
in... but was never patient enough to actually try to type. I
switched back to X and killed it via <shift><back> and it killed all
my X apps and the system came back to life.
Why am I bothering to report this? I am because there are three of us
here in computer services that have all had these happen in the last
few days. These were on kernels 2.1.12[678]. This NEVER NEVER
happens on 2.1.125. Something has changed for the worse, but it does
FEEL peppier at the keyboard ;-)
-- Jeffrey Hundstad
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