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Re: kernel-patch-preempt-2.4 stability?



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.

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