[Sheflug] Blummin 2.4.8 ...

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

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris J <Chris> writes:

    Chris> My machine locked up solid overnight a couple of nights
    Chris> back - dead to the world - monitor wouldn't come out of
    Chris> powersave, and I couldn't ssh into my machine from the
    Chris> firewall, etc etc. After a reboot, I looked in the log
    Chris> files, and saw nothing in them from 4.30am until
    Chris> reboot. Not had a kernel do that for a while :-/

    Chris> Currently grabbing 2.4.9, see if that solves whatever the
    Chris> problem was...I think 2.4 still has a way to go before
    Chris> being as stable as 2.2. I'm debating whether to downgrade
    Chris> back to 2.2 or carry on following 2.4.

    Chris> Anyone else had kernel lockups in 2.4 ?

None whatsoever.

I've been running 2.4.x since the -test kernels, and with the
exception of -test7 or -test9 which was broken, I've not had any
hassles.

I just upgraded from 2.4.6-pre5 to 2.4.9-pre2 a couple of days ago
after about a 6 week uptime (PII-400 SMP, 384Mb).

One box running 2.4.4 (P75, 36Mb) has been going for 111 days now.

What sort of hardware is your system running? It's about the only
reason I've seen on the kernel mailling list for crashes.

Cheers.

Baz. 
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