On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Ian D. Stewart wrote: [...]
To differentiate from Windows, nobody's suggesting you remove and reinstall Linux, here :-)
Unless I misunderstood Andreas' e-mail, that i pretty much what he is recomending.
Not quite. You can compile and run a new Linux kernel without reinstalling your system. Furthermore, you can switch back and forth between the old kernel and the new one at each reboot.
Andreas was recommending a blind upgrade with a prayer that the bug be fixed, but you can also view this as a way to diagnose the problem, pretty much like one would do a binary search on Wine's CVS sources to find when a bug appeared.
In your case, either the bug is still present in the latest kernel which then means you are not wasting your time trying to fix a bug that has already been fixed, or it is no longer present and then analyzing the differences between the two kernels may help you find what was wrong.
Note: I'm running Wine a lot on my system and have never seen MemTotal change (with 2.4.17 and older kernels).
-- Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/ Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. -- from some indian guy