Re: [Sheflug] Re: 2.4.4

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

>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Hudson <home [at] alexhudson.com> writes:

    Alex> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:20:01PM +0100, Craig Andrews
    Alex> wrote:
    >> > 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
    >> 
    >> I beg to differ. I have not once had a problem with 2.4.4
    >> stability wise.

    Alex> Yeah, but like I said, I'm not running the latest 2.4.

    >> It is just as stable as 2.2.x for general desktop use, and
    >> seems to bring something of a speed boost to boot (although it
    >> is probably my imagination ;)

    Alex> I'll try it and see. It's been probably about two (usage)
    Alex> hours since my last Linux crash, so here's hoping.

Eeeek. See uptimes below.

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

    Alex> My desktop is higher load than any of my servers :)

As it should be, I guess. The server that hosts my website is showing

 5:16pm up 32 days, 21:00, 37 users, load average: 0.37, 0.45, 0.45

It's a dual processor box running 2.2.19 - this is a relatively high
load for this box, compared with it at other times.

Unlike my workstation:

 11:17pm  up 9 days,  5:50,  4 users,  load average: 2.00, 2.04, 2.09

X does equal a big jump in load figures. My figures are a bit duff,
since I'm running a dnet client on all my machines.

Thats with 4-5 hours a night use, plus sitting there heating the room
the rest of the time.

BTW, I'm running 2.4.4-ac5...give 2.4.5-pre1 or 2.4.4 a try.

Re: Will's comment - X crashes, thanks - Mozilla died and took X out
not long after I read that post. Voodoo! :-)

Baz.

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