Braun Brelin wrote:
> Hey all,
>> I have a RedHat 8 box with a 2.4.20 kernel. This particular kernel is
> causing resource starvation (the kscand issue with the bigmem kernel).
>> Is there any issue with compiling the latest 2.6 kernel and dropping it
> in? I.e. are there any glibc or other critical dependencies that would
> prevent me from doing this?
There will be lots of issues with glibc,modutils, etc.
Also there would be little niggles with procps, psutils etc.
The best bet is to use redhat supplied RPMs,
so update to the latest updates available for RH8
and then these are probably the best?
http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/RPMS.kernel/
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