linux hogging memory

[Christopher Chan]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 07:23:05AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
> 
>  > > > Upgrade to 2.6.6 if you can. Things are better there and FC1 can handle 
>  > > > 2.6.x out of the box (that is, no need to upgrade module tools and 
>  > > other > stuff)
>  > >
>  > >Except for you needing to pass vdso=0 on the boot command line.
>  > 
>  > ???
>  > 
>  > What's that?
> 
> There's an incompatability between the vsyscall code in the FC2
> kernels, and the glibc in FC1. The fix is to either upgrade glibc
> (painful -- might as well just go to FC2), or disable the vsyscall
> code with vdso=0
> This isn't necessary for upstream kernels btw.
> I lost the beginning of this thread, so I'm unsure you meant
> the FC2 kernels or upstream kernels.

Vanilla....is that what you mean by upstream?