Re: [Sheflug] Re: 2.4.4

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

Well, in terms of scientific thrashing, I have run:

Gnome
Enlightenment
Mozilla 0.8
Emacs :)
updatedb
Apache
XMMS
Star Office (Nice drawing)
AbiWord (Nice WP)
xfig

and the system has felt nice and responsive the whole time. Not a massive
load on it, I know, but its more than would make my NT box break into a
cold sweat :)

Cheers,

Craig

On Mon, 14 May 2001, Barrie Bremner wrote:

> >>>>> "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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