[WBEL-users] kswapd issues, on latest whitebox updates.

[Mark Reynolds]

Thanks John,

Have passed that info on.

Seem to have nailed it (though is early days)
with the following /proc/sys/vm config options

echo 2 10 20 > /proc/sys/vm/pagecache
echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/inactive_clean_percent

in case anyone else with kswapd issues wants
something to try.

Also, did you get my email a month or two back,
suggesting the apache query string be changed to
reflect whiteboxlinux heritage, so as to show
up on netcraft surveys?

Also, I'd like to offer space here to do an .AU rsync
whiteboxlinux mirror, and to suggest that you should
change direct access to your primary, so that only 
mirrors have access, and that the yum and up2date 
configs make no reference to your direct site. 

Thaks
Mark Reynolds

Quoting John Morris <jmorris@beau.org>:

> On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Mark Reynolds wrote:
> 
> > I have been asked by a well respected kernel hacker ... 
> > "Does whiteboxlinux have exactly the same config options 
> > as the rhel3 kernel?"
> 
> The kernels supplied with WBEL are built with a simple "rpmbuild --rebuild
> --sign --target <target>" except for the i586 package which won't build
> out of the stock srpm but it only gets a one line tweak and then "rpmbuild
> -bb --sign --target i586"
> 
> > I'm not even sure that is a question that we will be able
> > to get an answer to, as it seems possible to me that
> > redhat could publish their sources, and not the compile
> > time options.
> 
> No they can't; the GPL is quite explicit on this subject.  And to the
> best of my knowledge they are in full compliance.  Their kernel might be
> patched out the wazoo, it might be a total Frankenstein horror, but it is
> fully GPL compliant.  Plus the nature of RPM packaging makes it pretty 
> hard to sneak in a hidden tweak.
> 
> The taroon list has also had a few threads about mysterious performance
> problems related to swap so it is something that is probably being worked
> on over at RH.
> 
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