[Sheflug] Blummin 2.4.8 ...

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

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Ibbotson <richard [at] sheflug.co.uk> writes:

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

    Richard> No ... not in SuSE or Debian.  I wouldn't like to comment
    Richard> too much here.  But, I *really_do* believe that your own
    Richard> comments are *well_founded*

We've had this discussion before, and I won't pretend that 2.4 is
as stable as 2.2 - IIRC Alan Cox has mentioned he doesn't expect that
until next year, but I can't believe that 2.4 is so bad that it kills
boxen every day or 2.

I've run most 2.4.x kernels, including -test, -pre, -ac and Redhat
vendor versions, and have not had my system go down.

Admittedly I hardly stress my system that much, however I have run
Oracle 8i, and stress tested that on early 2.4 without bother...

I'm running fairly boring hardware: BX chipset, dual PIIs, Promise
ATA-100 controller, Soundblaster AWE64, 3Com 509 NIC.

Cheers.

Baz.


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