In general what is the best way to see what has changed in a new CentOS kernel? (apart from looking at the %changelog) Steve -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 3:07 PM To: CentOS ML Subject: Re: [CentOS] Very slow on I/O? On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 11:52 -0700, David King wrote: > >> Just one more piece of information: a simple recompile isn't what > >> has fixed the problem every time, the recompile has involved an > >> upgrade to 2.6.16 as well > > There is a bad patch to the vm that makes the box use swap even > > when there is free RAM space available. Maybe that is what you are > > seeing. > > I don't think so, swap usage is only 440k > > > The fix will be in the 4.4 release kernel. > > What kernel version will be in 4.4? I can look this up myself too if > someone can kindly give me a pointer :) > _______________________________________________ 2.6.9-42.EL (on the 4.4 CD when released) or 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL (new out today ... will be an update)