Re: Linux 2.2.12 locking up

Jeffrey Hundstad (jeffrey.hundstad@mankato.msus.edu)
Fri, 1 Oct 1999 15:06:51 -0500 (CDT)


I'd like to confim your belief. My experience indicates that kernels
2.2.10 and above are NOT stable. They last from several minutes to
hours on my servers. I've got a pretty diverse set of machines and
NONE of them are stable above 2.2.9.

-- 
Jeffrey Hundstad

On 1 Oct, Nils Faerber wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 09:47:35AM +0200, Peter Hanecak wrote: >> On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Tom Sutterfield wrote: >> > Anyone had any problems with their box locking up, and nothing >> > being logged in /var/log/messages? >> me > OK, free from AOL: Me too ;) > >> (is it some survey? :) > We should have one on this topic. > >> but to the topic. >> i got freeze problems with 2.2.12 and laters (2.2.13pre series). > And what about earlier kernels? I have just found that the latest stable > kernel seems to be 2.2.6. All later ones show the freeze sooner or later. > After looking at the patch-2.2.7 I have no idea what the reason could be. > All the patches for 2.2.7 either do not apply for my setup or seem rather > unsuspecious. Interestingly 2.2.7 ran almost stable until I updated my > machines CPU from 300MHz to a 400MHz one. Strange, isn't it? > Just FYI: My hardware is a notebook computer, now 400MHz mobile Celeron, > Intel BX chipset, AGP graphics (ATI Rage LT Pro), 64MB RAM, ide HDD and CD. > CU > nils >

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