Re: [Sheflug] Re: money back

[Denis Nikitin <dnn [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 15:21, Peter Collier wrote:
[snip]
> >
> > Btw, Fedora hangs on SMP pretty bad. Booting ok using uni kernel, but
> > hangs the SMP machine and won't boot when trying SMP kernel
> > (kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl).
> > Something to cheer up those who is expecting stability from Fedora :))
> > Best regards,
> > Denis.
> >
> Just to be contrary, my machine does not hang up running Fedora on SMP. 
> Perhaps it's one of those hardware issues thing, e.g. RH works on machine 1 
> ok but lots of problems with SuSE but on machine 2 with different makes of 
> hardware, the opposite is true.
> 
> Peter C
Agreed. It depends on hardware, obviously. I've tried it on 2 dual Xeon
Dell machine (where Redhat 9 was running ok, btw). Is you machine  Intel
or Athlon SMP box? There is different kernel for athlon.
My experience was very bad - machine just hangs 
with last message "entering interactive start-up" (pretty much at the
start). Then cold reboot is only an option.
My point was - if you haven't got constant access to the box where
Fedora is running you are at very big risk to end -up with non-working
system after kernel update one day. Our servers are in London and I just
can't risk it.
Cheers,
Denis. 

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