RHEL 3?

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

> Anyone running memcached on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3?  I'm having a
> hard time finding getting epoll working on this distro.  Seems like the
> glibc supports it, but the kernel doesn't, and I can't find a patch that
> will go against 2.4.21-EL cleanly (or even 2.4.21).  I suppose we could
> go for the vanilla kernel, but that would mean a bunch of time to harden
> it.

Weird... I'd have thought RHEL would do epoll by default.  I guess very
little code uses it yet, so it's not considered a big deal.

Here's the patch for 2.4.21 vanilla:

http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/epoll-lt-2.4.21-0.18.diff

What parts don't merge cleanly?  Usually resolving it by hand isn't so
hard.

- Brad