Re: Kernel upgrade

[Jason Pincin <chardros@linuxkb.org>]

Sounds good to me.  We have bigger fish to fry at the moment.


On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:08:26AM -0800, Aaron Turner wrote:
> 
> Well in talking to VA, they're saying that the recommend everyone move to
> 2.2.12-6 which is the latest on their site.  I'm still a bit worried about
> the 2.2.x kernel in general though.  Andrea Arcangeli just released
> (Sunday) her 2.2.13aa3 patch set which fixed a lot of SMP issues (race
> conditions, etc).  From the looks of it, this is the kernel to run, not
> VA's 2.2.12-6.
> 
> My personal feeling is this:
> 
> 1)  If it ain't broke don't fix it.  As long as we don't run any heavy
> loads on Yukon right now, we should be ok.  This would explain running the
> Seti client on Yukon causing it to blow up.
> 
> 2)  Upgrade to the latest 'n greatest just before we go live.  If things
> continue like they have been for the past 3 weeks, a lot of bug squashing
> will happen before 2.4.0 comes out in December.  I suggest we wait until
> then, and decide what to do.
> 
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