Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)
Craig Dickson said:
> Your call, of course, for your machines. But in general I've found
> 2.4 to be pretty decent. I had something like two months of uptime
> with 2.4.9 before I decided to upgrade it to 2.4.12-ac3, which in
> turn ran for a few weeks flawlessly before I decided to upgrade to
> 2.4.15... which was a mistake, to judge from the postings we've
[..]
2:08pm up 146 days, 19:58, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.04, 0.01
2:08pm up 158 days, 6:35, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
2:08pm up 195 days, 14:37, 0 users, load average: 0.06, 0.05, 0.01
2:08pm up 15:05, 2 users, load average: 1.40, 1.26, 1.35
2:08pm up 65 days, 3:13, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00
5:08pm up 115 days, 8:44, 0 users, load average: 0.32, 0.08, 0.02
5:08pm up 115 days, 13:28, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
5:08pm up 50 days, 23:25, 0 users, load average: 0.10, 0.11, 0.09
2:08pm up 35 days, 20:59, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
2:08pm up 248 days, 18:37, 0 users, load average: 0.04, 0.02, 0.00
2:09pm up 241 days, 3:15, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.02, 0.00
2:09pm up 214 days, 14:49, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
2:09pm up 3 days, 21:50, 0 users, load average: 0.05, 0.07, 0.02
2:09pm up 99 days, 2:44, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
2:09pm up 35 days, 21:11, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.00
14:09:11 up 190 days, 21:59, 34 users, load average: 1.11, 1.28, 1.29
9:56pm up 136 days, 5:59, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
10:06pm up 345 days, 3:21, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01
14:10:55 up 49 days, 16:17, 3 users, load average: 0.05, 0.05, 0.01
2:11pm up 42 days, 16:30, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.07, 0.01
2:16pm up 237 days, 1:50, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.01, 0.00
thats the bulk of my debian gnu/linux 2.2 and 2 3.0 systems
all with kernel 2.2 .....! i also have redhat, solaris, aix,
tru64, hpux and a few freebsd and 1 or 2 NT systems. the
system that has uptime of 15 hours kernel panic'd last
night due to a 3ware raid controller error. i am deploying
freebsd because it offers some things that linux 2.2 does
not(and 2.4 might) but i don't trust 2.4 to do the job
sadly enough. but i also waited a full year after 2.2
came out before deploying it on a production system. 2.2.10
was my first production 2.2 kernel and it went through about
3-4 months of everyday use before i considered it good.
i used the 2.1 series since 2.1.57 back in the day and
feel the late 2.1s seem to be more stable then 2.4 is now
(i read kernel traffic every week)
once linux 2.4 gets to the point of 1 upgrade every 6-8-10
months then it'll be stable enough for me..i tried 2.4 on
a desktop at home a couple months ago and it wouldn't even
boot..otherwise i may of scheduled more tests in the near future..
nate
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