Slicehost kernel 2.6.32

Just wanted to drop a quick note saying Slicehost has finally released a new kernel that fixes all of the issues I had pointed out in the 2.6.31-302-rs build. It took a whole lot longer than I would have wanted—nearly three months—but it does seem to be working great so maybe one could say it was worth the wait.

The new kernel has a version of 2.6.32.1-rscloud. It includes both the xt_recent kernel module, used for my iptables rate-limiting rules on the SSH port, and also has a much smaller memory footprint with none of the JFS and XFS junk stealing valuable megabytes of RAM. If you are running Arch Linux on your slice, I would highly recommend updating to this kernel.

Edit: Now that 2.6.32.9-rscloud is out, you should probably use that instead.

See Also

• Where is my new kernel, Slicehost? - January 20, 2010
• Slicehost kernel upgrade - November 1, 2009
• Linux command of the day: slabtop - July 7, 2011
• 2.4 > 2.6 in OpenWrt - November 29, 2009
• Eee Kernel 2.6.31.2-1 Update - October 6, 2009