Re: [Sheflug] Re: 2.4.4

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

>>>>> "Craig" == Craig Andrews <craig [at] fishbot.org.uk> writes:

    >> on. But, the reasons I have is that 2.4 falls over every five
    >> minutes, it's just not stable enough (caveat: I haven't tried
    >> the new OOM fixes, that

    Craig> I beg to differ. I have not once had a problem with 2.4.4
    Craig> stability wise.  It is just as stable as 2.2.x for general
    Craig> desktop use, and seems to bring something of a speed boost
    Craig> to boot (although it is probably my imagination ;)

    Craig> However, I have not tried it in a high-load always on
    Craig> server environment (where I still run 2.2.18) or my laptop
    Craig> (2.2.17)

I'm still running 2.2.19 on my fileserver machine (not exactly high
load) - because of the thought of 2.4 NFS eating my files and making
a "loud belching noise" to quote Redhat beta warnings :-)

2.4.0-test9 -> 2.4.0-prerelease thrashed something chronic, 2.4.0 to
2.4.3 seemed OK (still ext2 fs issues was there not?).

2.4.4-ac5 has been running now for 9 days, under a reasonable load -
not exactly on par with vuw.ac.nz machines, but not 5 minutes either.

Haven't given 2.4.3 or 2.4.4 a real disk workout, so dunno how they
behave there.

All very subjective - I've never given any system a "scientific"
thrash :-)

Baz.

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