On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Sébastien Bernard wrote: >> >>I have no clue why is it marked oldkernel something related to the buildd ? >> >> >> >The debian.org sparc machines do not work reliably with recent kernels. >> >That is not sustainable. > > Not only them. All my Sparcs run Squeeze kernels, too, because neither > Wheezy (3.2) nor Sid kernels (3.12 was the last one I tried IIRC) can > provide uptimes more than a month. Sometimes they freeze just after a > few days of uptime. Since I'm back on 2.6.32, I never had issues > again. Current uptime 92 days. > > Example uprecords: > > >From a Sparc installed with Sid in autumn 2013: > > # Uptime | System Boot > up > ----------------------------+--------------------------------------------------- > -> 1 92 days, 20:22:44 | Linux 2.6.32-5-sparc64-s Sat Jan 25 21:38:13 > 2014 > 2 24 days, 09:18:08 | Linux 3.10-2-sparc64-smp Sat Sep 7 16:16:29 > 2013 > 3 5 days, 23:12:41 | Linux 3.12-trunk-sparc64 Fri Nov 29 04:12:01 > 2013 > 4 4 days, 01:35:01 | Linux 3.12-trunk-sparc64 Sat Dec 7 15:32:05 > 2013 > 5 2 days, 22:44:57 | Linux 3.12-trunk-sparc64 Mon Jan 20 21:36:35 > 2014 > 6 2 days, 14:21:37 | Linux 3.10-3-sparc64-smp Wed Oct 2 04:16:49 > 2013 > 7 1 day , 15:14:57 | Linux 2.6.32-5-sparc64-s Tue Jan 19 04:14:07 > 2038 > ----------------------------+--------------------------------------------------- > > >From a Sparc running Wheezy since July 2013, stripped to those uptimes > since the upgrade to Wheezy: > > 14 0 days, 00:19:43 | Linux 3.2.0-4-sparc64 Mon Jul 15 12:22:26 > 2013 > 15 0 days, 00:53:29 | Linux 3.2.0-4-sparc64 Mon Jul 15 13:14:06 > 2013 > 16 0 days, 00:07:17 | Linux 3.2.0-4-sparc64 Mon Jul 15 14:10:26 > 2013 > 17 209 days, 21:29:54 | Linux 2.6.32-5-sparc64 Mon Jul 15 14:18:30 > 2013 > -> 18 77 days, 07:11:40 | Linux 2.6.32-5-sparc64 Mon Feb 10 10:50:23 > 2014 > > The latter has not much load, it's just an NTP server. > >> On my V240, the 3.13 kernel seems to be rock solid (I've been >> rebuilding the gcc package 3 times - 8hours build - without any >> issue). > > It's good to hear that there are least some hardware architectures > where recent kernels are more stable than on all my UltraSparcs.
I have successfully installed wheezy (debian-7.2.0-sparc-DVD-1.iso) today to SF V215 hardware. Installation went clean. Upgraded to unstable, now running 3.14-1-sparc64-smp . Meanwhile compiling 3.14.4 kernel sources as a test with gcc-4.9. Going to leave this machine running, just to see how stable it will be. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cadxrzqxof7aekx+mvlpgtgss4_8fu7ryrjfivxx5-upifp7...@mail.gmail.com