On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 03:19:54PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
>
> > I have been running 2.2.14 since a few days after it's release on Intel
> > and Sparc machines, and I'm very happy with it.
> > I have managed to avoid 2.2.15 totaly, couse of it's very known problems.
> >
> > Now, I need to upgrade, couse of the fixes for the capabilities bug et al.
> >
> > I have 3 options:
> >
> > - 2.2.16 stock
> > - 2.2.16 + Alan's 2.2.16combo patch
> > - 2.2.17pre1
> >
> > What made me afraid at this point is 2.2.16 being called a security patch.
> > Is it 2.2.15 + security patches only ? Or does it fix 2.2.15 stability
> > problems ?
>
> It does fix stability problems, most notably VM changes.
I always had problems with 2.2.14 and 2.2.15 with sudden freezes
of my SMP Celeron every 2-3 Weeks - No i upgraded to 2.2.16 and the
first freeze came 5 hours later.
I have now hooked a serial console on the machine and i am waiting...
Flo
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