Re: kernel-patch-preempt-2.4 stability?
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 12:31:37PM -0500, Lance Simmons wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 12:13:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> > A kernel crash would kill _everything_. You'd have to hit the Reset
> > button, or maybe even the power switch. However, unless you are
> > running "top" on the console, or the active xterm window, sometimes
> > it's hard to tell between crashes and hangs.
> >
> > However, if you suspect a crash/hang and can telnet/ssh in from
> > another machine, you know that it's only the console that is frozen.
>
> When this has happened (namely, within a day of every time I've tried a
> kernel with preemption), I have not been able to ssh in from another
> machine. I'm left with a frozen X session, and can't use the keyboard
> to get to a console.
You may very well want to get in contact with Robert Love
<rml@tech9.net>, the upstream author.
Simon
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