Quoting System Administrator ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On 5 Nov 1998, Dale E. Martin wrote:
> > I (and others) have found the late 2.1.x (for me > 2.1.104) to be way more
> > stable than any 2.0.3x kernel. You might want to give one a try - better
> > performance, too. As usual, YMMV.
> >
>
> Well, i've tried all the 2.0 kernels and every single crash I've had in
> the past year on 6 machines has been IRQ deadlocks with SMP on, so I have
> nothing to lose by trying a 2.1 kernel. I noticed when I tried it my nfs
Well I'm still afraid that for rufus.w3.org 2.2.x will be a pain. I have
tried 2.1.99 back in June (or July) for three weeks and basically it was
freezing a couple of time a week. I tried to monitor the developement and
tried 2.1.111 and 2.1.113 without success. Lately I tried again 2.1.125 and
thing improved the freeze took just a few minutes to come. I sent a rather
long diagnostic back on this list, without getting answers, so I'm afraid
it's not a trivial problem.
The machine is an Intel Buckeye server 2xPPro200, 256 MBytes of mem. The
onboard AIC7880 is not used anymore, having switched to an NCR-875, 6 SCSI
HD, 3 UDMA Maxtor, 1 Promise card, SCSI tapes, two EEPro100, Matrox Millenium.
This machine is simply rock-solid under 2.0.35, and with the exception
of the AIC7880 I didn't into troubles with them for 1 year. And I don't
feel happy with the idea of rebooting it for checking whether the problem
is cured when there is in average 50 FTP users. Sitting here and waiting
is not comfortable either :-\
I'm concerned about the loss of stability it seems I'm the only one to
suffer from 2.1.xxx. On the 2.0.35 side we have now 3 servers, based exlusively
on 3.0.35 + DACPJM960 RAID (or PGM) + EEPPro100 and either dual P2 or Dual
PPro the only patches being the RAID support and the update of the EEPro110
driver to the latest version. Those are really solid, I have yet to see a
single crash. So yes I concur, YMMV ...
Daniel
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