I have just tested 2.1.127 on my PC. I ran it for about 1 hour, maybe
a little more. I had an idle remote X session open (KDE, Netscape
Communicator and not much else), and I was using XEmacs with Gnus on
the (text) console. I noticed that Gnus was displaying articles slower
and slower, like maybe 1/2 to 1 second to show an article. I tried to
log in on another virtual terminal, and bash took nearly 1 minute to
load and execute its rc scripts (mainly run fortune). I closed XEmacs
and the X session, all of which closed at "normal" speed. Then I ran
top on my (already open) tty, while waiting for the shell prompt to
come up on 2 other ttys; machine load was about 7, with processes such
as mcserv, innwatch, wwwoffled and my 2 loading bashes using about 15%
CPU each, whereas most of them were supposed to be idle. When my root
prompt finally came up, I ran reboot; it started stopping services
extremely slowly, like it stopped gpm, wwwoffle, mcserv and the NFS
server in half an hour. My cron fired up a PPP connection during the
shutdown process; it failed (apparently due to some timeout from my
box), but the "ppp line discipline successfully unregistered" message
took more than 15 minutes to appear in the system logs. I finally did
a hard reset, not wanting to wait for several hours for my box to
reboot.
The same box has run 2.1.125 since it is out without problems; I stop
it for the night, but it runs 12 or 15 hours a day. I have not tried
2.1.126.
arnaud@keeper:~ > cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : CyrixInstead
cpu family : 5
model : 49
model name : 6x86 2x Core/Bus Clock
stepping : 2.7
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu
bogomips : 133.53
arnaud@keeper:~ > dmesg
Linux version 2.1.125 (root@keeper.pumpkin.home) (gcc version
egcs-2.90.27 980315 (egcs-1.0.2 release)) #1 ven oct 30 01:07:34 CET
1998
Console: colour VGA+ 80x50
Calibrating delay loop... 133.53 BogoMIPS
Memory: 95752k/98304k available (668k kernel code, 408k reserved,
1444k data, 32k init)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor
mode... Ok.
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: Cyrix 6x86 2x Core/Bus Clock stepping 2.7
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error
reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb270
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 for Linux 2.1
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.16 for Linux NET3.038.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.037
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Serial driver version 4.26 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: NEC Corporation DSE2550A, ATA DISK drive
hdd: HITACHI CDR-7730, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: NEC Corporation DSE2550A, 2441MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=620/128/63
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda3
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 32k freed
Adding Swap: 80604k swap-space (priority -1)
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x260: 00 80 ad b9 6a e1
eth0: NE2000 found at 0x260, using IRQ 10.
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