Re: Sparc status ?
Hi,
Sébastien Bernard wrote:
> >>I have no clue why is it marked oldkernel something related to the buildd ?
> >>
> >The debian.org sparc machines do not work reliably with recent kernels.
> >That is not sustainable.
Not only them. All my Sparcs run Squeeze kernels, too, because neither
Wheezy (3.2) nor Sid kernels (3.12 was the last one I tried IIRC) can
provide uptimes more than a month. Sometimes they freeze just after a
few days of uptime. Since I'm back on 2.6.32, I never had issues
again. Current uptime 92 days.
Example uprecords:
>From a Sparc installed with Sid in autumn 2013:
# Uptime | System Boot up
----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------
-> 1 92 days, 20:22:44 | Linux 2.6.32-5-sparc64-s Sat Jan 25 21:38:13 2014
2 24 days, 09:18:08 | Linux 3.10-2-sparc64-smp Sat Sep 7 16:16:29 2013
3 5 days, 23:12:41 | Linux 3.12-trunk-sparc64 Fri Nov 29 04:12:01 2013
4 4 days, 01:35:01 | Linux 3.12-trunk-sparc64 Sat Dec 7 15:32:05 2013
5 2 days, 22:44:57 | Linux 3.12-trunk-sparc64 Mon Jan 20 21:36:35 2014
6 2 days, 14:21:37 | Linux 3.10-3-sparc64-smp Wed Oct 2 04:16:49 2013
7 1 day , 15:14:57 | Linux 2.6.32-5-sparc64-s Tue Jan 19 04:14:07 2038
----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------
>From a Sparc running Wheezy since July 2013, stripped to those uptimes
since the upgrade to Wheezy:
14 0 days, 00:19:43 | Linux 3.2.0-4-sparc64 Mon Jul 15 12:22:26 2013
15 0 days, 00:53:29 | Linux 3.2.0-4-sparc64 Mon Jul 15 13:14:06 2013
16 0 days, 00:07:17 | Linux 3.2.0-4-sparc64 Mon Jul 15 14:10:26 2013
17 209 days, 21:29:54 | Linux 2.6.32-5-sparc64 Mon Jul 15 14:18:30 2013
-> 18 77 days, 07:11:40 | Linux 2.6.32-5-sparc64 Mon Feb 10 10:50:23 2014
The latter has not much load, it's just an NTP server.
> On my V240, the 3.13 kernel seems to be rock solid (I've been
> rebuilding the gcc package 3 times - 8hours build - without any
> issue).
It's good to hear that there are least some hardware architectures
where recent kernels are more stable than on all my UltraSparcs.
Regards, Axel
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