[TriLUG] upgrade to 2.4.17!

[Andrew C. Oliver]

Just wanted to say hey and make a suggestion.  Upgrade to 2.4.17!  

Its about freaking time.  I was initially kind of skeptical when linus
chose to rip out the memory stuff and replace it after release but now I
see the wisdom in it.  All of those folks posting performance tests have
missed the point.  

After 2 1/2 days of running, my memory utilization is as follows:

CPU states:  0.1% user,  0.5% system,  0.0% nice, 99.2% idle
Mem:   513728K av,  315820K used,  197908K free,       0K shrd,   29112K
buff
Swap: 1025000K av,       0K used, 1025000K free                  184416K
cached

This is after running and exiting programs with evolution running, etc
etc.  On the comparable usage in 2.4.7-redhat I would have had 0 free
and plenty swap by now.  Everything is faster, its much better.

*emptor cavet* - I'm sure 2.4.17 (now that I've recommended it) will
have some horrid flaw to be discovered shortly after I post this, but so
far it seems like its the first one they got right IMHO.

-Andy
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