Re: Software updates

[Jason Pincin <chardros@linuxkb.org>]

Well - after reading Wade's comments - I'm almost convinced to say try
2.2.13.  If 2.2.12 is that bad - unless VA's patches improve the
stability.  I have no experience with either so I can't say - all my boxes
are still running 2.2.5, 2.2.7 and 2.0.36 :).

Jason


On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 05:07:14AM -0400, Wade Hampton wrote:
> Aaron Turner wrote:
> > 
> > VA has finally released (actually a few weeks ago) a more recent kernel
> > which has a lot of performance improvements for SMP/Apache boxes.
> I'll have to get a copy.  I had a LOT of problems with SMP recently,
> but they seem to be fixed in the 2.2.13 pre series (I baselined
> about a dozen systems a week or so before 2.2.13 was officially
> released).
> > 
> > Anyways, on the same note, anyone have an opinion on Vodka (single
> > PII-450)?  Anyone know if MySQL will take advantage of a 2.2.x based
> > kernel on a single CPU system?  
> No idea...
> 
> >VA included the lastest RAID patches with
> > 2.2.12 (yes I know 2.2.13 is out, but I haven't seen a reason to try to
> > use the VA patches on a 2.2.13 kernel).
> My experience is that 2.2.12 is OK for UP boxes (it still has a memory
> leak, I believe), but 2.2.12 is NOT stable for SMP.  2.2.12 also
> has some nasty NFS lockups.  During extensive testing somewhere
> around 2.2.13pre8, SMP became stable for me (I have 2 dual PII 300 boxes
> and
> 2 dual PIII/450 boxes -- all were crashing until pre8 or so and now
> all are still running pre15 with ikd and kdb patches).
> 
> > Anyways, I'll be planning the kernel upgrade on Yukon and possibly Vodka.
> > I'll give plenty of warning via email before I switch over- probably next
> > weekend.  If anyone has any special needs/thoughts/concerns, now is the
> > time to voice them.
> Go for it....
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> W. Wade, Hampton  <whampton@staffnet.com>  
> 
> Linux is new, it's come out of nowhere, it's free. Hard to beat that 
> price. And it's taking marketshare left and right.  
> 
> --Microsoft's lawyer, in closing argument, Bristol v. Microsoft,
> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/bti/07-15closing.htm

-- 
Jason
http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~chardros