Thanks for your help anyway. Unfortunately, 2.6.18.1 doesn't fix my IVTV
problems (sigh). One soldiers on!

Kirk Bocek

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 04:02:03PM -0700, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>>
>> Axel Thimm wrote:
>>> I can't say for sure, but I strongly doubt that anything has changed
>>> wrt XFS. And no stock kernel will be a safe player for XFS (unless you
>>> are on x86_64). The kernel-suspend2 kernels with 8k stacks are a much
>>> better choice for a kernel, then (available for FC5 and FC6).
>> Well, I *am* on x86_64. Is 'kernel-suspend2' a kernel setting somewhere? Is 
>> it 
>> needed on x86_64?
> 
> Craig already answered what kernel-suspend2 is (thanks, Craig). I was
> suggesting the 8k variant of it which has 8k stacks because XFS is
> known to be a high stack consumer. For example running XFS and NFS
> together on 4k stack kernels is known to crash due to eating too much
> stack space.
> 
> x86_64 has 8k stacks to start with and needs less stack space anyway
> due to having more register space, so you don't need special tricks to
> allow XFS or other stack space eaters to run on it.
> 
> Summa summarum: Since you're on x86_64 don't bother about any of that
> (unless you run a 32 bit kernel version on it)
> 
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