The new kernerl address many issues of it's 2.6.8 counter part including fixing the dreaded Seg fault with hlds,
The change log can be found here.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.9
for those who have YUM installed use
yum check-update
yum update
to first check to see if this new kernel is available for your distro
there alre also new versions of glibc and a few other packages & libraries available
(For fedora core 2 any way)
My Thread outlining 2.6.8 causing seg fault