Date:  Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:41:43 -0500
From:  "Mark Dodel" <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: 20031113 kernels


Forwarded message from "Scott G."  on Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:46:22 UTC 
comp.os.os2.bugs

I know, I know, there have been too many releases lately. Sorry.  Anyway,
here's the updated part of today's readme:

 20031113  14.096e
       - yet another named pipe fix
       - trace fix didn't get into previous w4 and uni kernels
       - EXPERIMENTAL: Removed a bunch of redundant locking and unlocking
of
         some pages in filesystem code that's already pinned, anyway. This
         ought to speed up a number of filesys-related APIs. Also,
re-enabled
         the un-pinning of numerous pages of memory from init code. This
         memory is now available for other uses, which should reduce
paging on
         many systems. This had been turned off since WSeB!


[Moderator note:  Download from
ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2/

"This contains fixes since xr_e002/xr_m015/mcp/acp. Important note: If you
use the OS/2 SES facility, you need a new sesdd32.sys dated April 2001 or
later to use this kernel. Also, a matching dump formatter (df_ret.exe),
provided separately, is required, if you want to analyze a dump from this
kernel. Finally, note that os2ldr is only required for the >64mb memory
detection mentioned below."

As always these are not officially supported by IBM unless they tell you
to use them.  

  **** Please send any followup to comp.os.os2.bugs on usenet.  ****

Also note that files are only on IBM's testcase for 2-3 days, so if you
want to try these get them now.   Make certain you back up any files
replaced and don't try these on a production system.  Read any readme file
before applying any changes.  If your system is working well, and you have
no problems addressed by these updates, do yourself a favour and don't
mess with this.  You have been warned.

The UNI and SMP files are for WSeB/ACP/eCS Pro (SMP kernel) and the W4
files are for post FP15/MCP versions, including eComStation.  Only use the
SMP kernel on a machine with more then one CPU.]



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