Re: 2.6 upgrade overall failure report

2005-04-16 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
I usually never complain, or give negative motivation, but this is a reality. Now, what's wrong with that ? Well, the fact is that new hardware is only supported by latest kernel, so at the end, you have to upgrade, and so you get more and more complexity whether you like it or not. As an

Re: 2.6 upgrade overall failure report (me too)

2005-04-16 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Hubert Tonneau wrote: I just have to second some of the problems you have run into. . There is still a memory leak trouble (probably in tigon3 driver since others reported so on kernel mailing list, and tigon3 is not a geek hardware since most nowdays lowend servers use

2.6 upgrade overall failure report

2005-04-16 Thread Hubert Tonneau
I started to move production servers to kernel 2.6 a year ago, but the strange situation is that one year later, most of them are back to 2.4 This did not append with 2.0 -> 2.2 or 2.2 -> 2.4 upgrade. Here are the factual technical reasons: Right from the beginning, the core 2.6 kernel was rock

2.6 upgrade overall failure report

2005-04-16 Thread Hubert Tonneau
I started to move production servers to kernel 2.6 a year ago, but the strange situation is that one year later, most of them are back to 2.4 This did not append with 2.0 - 2.2 or 2.2 - 2.4 upgrade. Here are the factual technical reasons: Right from the beginning, the core 2.6 kernel was rock

Re: 2.6 upgrade overall failure report (me too)

2005-04-16 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Hubert Tonneau wrote: I just have to second some of the problems you have run into. . There is still a memory leak trouble (probably in tigon3 driver since others reported so on kernel mailing list, and tigon3 is not a geek hardware since most nowdays lowend servers use

Re: 2.6 upgrade overall failure report

2005-04-16 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
I usually never complain, or give negative motivation, but this is a reality. Now, what's wrong with that ? Well, the fact is that new hardware is only supported by latest kernel, so at the end, you have to upgrade, and so you get more and more complexity whether you like it or not. As an