Re: My boss want to kill debian, please help !
Thanks for your suggestions.
the 2.4.28 is the vanilla. Both hardware are intel chips all over,
e100 NIC cards. I use debian sarge only, it will be next stable and
has many new packages.
The debian system has a hyperthread intel P4 at 3G and the redhat one
has same hyperthreead model but at 2.8G. , the debian machine has 2G
of RAM (with support for 4GB of ram), the redhat one has 512MB of RAM,
kernels are all vanillas. I'm not sure i can try too much stuff right
now, temporary another computer will replace this debian to do the
routing job, until the redhat 9 gets installed :( .
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 06:57:07 -0500, Adam Aube <aaube01@baker.edu> wrote:
> George Alexandru Dragoi wrote:
>
> > Here are several servers, most redhat, some freebsd 5.x, and some
> > debian. Debian is used on 2 most powerfull servers, and put under
> > network traffic stress. From time to time, these debian systems has a
> > kernel panic, packet loss.
>
> Stable (Woody), Testing (Sarge), or Unstable (Sid)?
>
> > Last time one of the machines completly died, it stopped to work (it
> > didn't say "kernel panic"). The machine is under huge stress because it is
> > connected to a big swtching network via e1000 netcard (in 100 full duplex
> > mode). It has zebra + bgpd and also arpwatch. I use QoS on that machine,
> > htb with about 1500 classes and 1500 filters (fw).
>
> > The kernel is 2.4.28 stable.
>
> Is this a "vanilla" kernel.org kernel, a 2.4.28 kernel compiled for Debian
> Stable from somewhere, or something else?
>
> > Another machine, also debian, got into similar problems under
> > high load (kernel panic, or just system freeze).
>
> Same kernel? Same amount of memory? Same hardware?
>
> > Another machine, under even more load, is a redhat 9.0, some 2.4.26
> > kernel, bgp, 4000 htb classes and no problem at all.
>
> How does the hardware with this system compare with the Debian systems?
>
> > My boss experimented problems with debian several times (he is
> > an old unix/linux user), and now he believe that only redhat is good.
>
> > Does somebody knows what the problem may be with the machine with
> > 2.4.28 and that crashed recently without a word?
>
> Official RedHat kernel are usually heavily patched. You could try installing
> the kernel source RPM on the RedHat system, then copying the source tree
> and kernel config to a Debian system. Compile and install, then see if the
> freezing/panics go away.
>
> If the Debian systems are using a "vanilla" 2.4.28 kernel, you could also
> try upgrading to 2.4.29, which was recently released.
>
> You should also rule out flaky memory/hardware - memtest86 is good for this.
>
> Adam
>
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