Kernel 2.4.20 Released

[makmak]

:D

Kernel 2.4.20 is released.

Folks who always keep the kernel updated and fast, this should be it.

The changelog can be found here.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2....hangeLog-2.4.20

And those r seeking to enable NTFS support on linux can also take this opportunity to download the new kernel and include

this under ya make menuconfig's configuration.

# File systems

#

# CONFIG_QUOTA is not set

# CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS is not set

CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=y

CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=m

# CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set

# CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO is not set

CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m

# CONFIG_NTFS_RW is not set

[makmak]

Its seemed that Kernel 2.4.20 has fixed memory leak issue.

I used to have my memory shoot all the way up leaving meagre free memory. But its seemed that the VM management has shown some major improvement.

10:07pm up 29 min, 2 users, load average: 0.55, 0.27, 0.15

80 processes: 75 sleeping, 5 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped

CPU states: 26.5% user, 1.7% system, 0.0% nice, 71.6% idle

Mem: 516056K av, 305856K used, 210200K free, 0K shrd, 18648K buff

Swap: 682720K av, 0K used, 682720K free 185132K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND

2694 intenze 14 0 55664 54M 29892 R 24.8 10.7 2:27 mozilla-bin

2557 root 10 0 298M 41M 15964 R 2.7 8.2 0:26 X

2738 intenze 12 0 1036 1036 824 R 0.7 0.2 0:00 top

1 root 8 0 476 476 416 S 0.0 0.0 0:05 init

2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd

3 root 18 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0

4 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd

5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush

6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated

8 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd

10 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald

166 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald

167 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald

460 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 eth0

531 root 9 0 572 572 488 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 syslogd

536 root 9 0 448 448 388 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 klogd

556 rpc 9 0 564 564 476 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 portmap

Above shown my memory throttling with a PIII 747mhz and 512mb of memory

I have disabled many unwanted services.

See how ya memory compared to mine.

:)