Re: 2.1.40 lockup

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torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>
> 2.1.40 (and a lot of the 2.1.3x series) have a really nasty hole in the
> slab allocator which affects anything that uses kmalloc() or the slab
> interfaces in really nasty ways. Try out 2.1.41 if that would fix this
> for you,
>
That's nice, but ...

>-rw-rw-r-- 1 502 101 298776 May 28 22:00 pre-patch-2.1.42-2.gz
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 502 101 200685 May 28 18:59 pre-patch-2.1.42.gz
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 502 101 76864 May 28 03:52 v2.1/patch-2.1.41.gz

... but may I humbly suggest some work on fixing the memory/swap/???
problems some people have experienced with 2.0.30, preferably somewhat
before 2.1.99?

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