Re: Software updates

[Spencer Portee <sporty@sporty.org>]

ok.. ok.. I have to say it.. 2.2.7 of freebsd or of linux?  ;>

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:

moo> Well - after reading Wade's comments - I'm almost convinced to say try
moo> 2.2.13.  If 2.2.12 is that bad - unless VA's patches improve the
moo> stability.  I have no experience with either so I can't say - all my boxes
moo> are still running 2.2.5, 2.2.7 and 2.0.36 :).
moo> 
moo> Jason
moo> 
moo> 
moo> On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 05:07:14AM -0400, Wade Hampton wrote:
moo> > Aaron Turner wrote:
moo> > > 
moo> > > VA has finally released (actually a few weeks ago) a more recent kernel
moo> > > which has a lot of performance improvements for SMP/Apache boxes.
moo> > I'll have to get a copy.  I had a LOT of problems with SMP recently,
moo> > but they seem to be fixed in the 2.2.13 pre series (I baselined
moo> > about a dozen systems a week or so before 2.2.13 was officially
moo> > released).
moo> > > 
moo> > > Anyways, on the same note, anyone have an opinion on Vodka (single
moo> > > PII-450)?  Anyone know if MySQL will take advantage of a 2.2.x based
moo> > > kernel on a single CPU system?  
moo> > No idea...
moo> > 
moo> > >VA included the lastest RAID patches with
moo> > > 2.2.12 (yes I know 2.2.13 is out, but I haven't seen a reason to try to
moo> > > use the VA patches on a 2.2.13 kernel).
moo> > My experience is that 2.2.12 is OK for UP boxes (it still has a memory
moo> > leak, I believe), but 2.2.12 is NOT stable for SMP.  2.2.12 also
moo> > has some nasty NFS lockups.  During extensive testing somewhere
moo> > around 2.2.13pre8, SMP became stable for me (I have 2 dual PII 300 boxes
moo> > and
moo> > 2 dual PIII/450 boxes -- all were crashing until pre8 or so and now
moo> > all are still running pre15 with ikd and kdb patches).
moo> > 
moo> > > Anyways, I'll be planning the kernel upgrade on Yukon and possibly Vodka.
moo> > > I'll give plenty of warning via email before I switch over- probably next
moo> > > weekend.  If anyone has any special needs/thoughts/concerns, now is the
moo> > > time to voice them.
moo> > Go for it....
moo> > 
moo> > Cheers,
moo> > -- 
moo> > W. Wade, Hampton  <whampton@staffnet.com>  
moo> > 
moo> > Linux is new, it's come out of nowhere, it's free. Hard to beat that 
moo> > price. And it's taking marketshare left and right.  
moo> > 
moo> > --Microsoft's lawyer, in closing argument, Bristol v. Microsoft,
moo> > http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/bti/07-15closing.htm
moo> 
moo> -- 
moo> Jason
moo> http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~chardros
moo>