Re: Ok, I give up...

Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca)
Tue, 21 Dec 1999 06:27:19 -0500 (EST)

On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, David Edwards wrote:

>About 2 months ago, I moved all of my servers ( 15 of them) to the 2.2.x
>kernels. Some were clean installs of RH 6.0, some were upgrades to RH
>5.2. But all of these servers ran 2.0.35 and 2.0.36 with 100+ days of
>uptime and were rock solid. But since moving to the 2.2 kernels on the
>same hardware, reliability and uptime sucks. Seems like I can rarely get a
>month of uptime with the 2.2 kernels, and I've tried everything from 2.2.5
>to 2.2.14pre13. The few oopses I've had have been traced back to buggy
>hardware that has since been replaced. But in most every case with the 2.2
>kernels, the servers (mainly serving web pages) run for a few days to a
>week and then lock up completely. Then it requires a power cycle to bring
>it back to life.
>
>So I'm stumped. When a system locks up I don't get any console messages or
>anything in syslog. Since all of these servers ran 2.0.x kernels and were
>very stable for months, I'm inclined to think the hardware is fine. So any
>clues as to how I might track this down? I'd hate to say it (flame jacket
>on) but my NT and freeBSD boxes are putting Linux to shame in terms of
>stability....

1) Well, you've provided nobody with any information whatsoever
that could even begin to allow them to attempt to help you.

2) You are assuming that it is in fact not a hardware failure,
but actually a 2.2.x bug, without actually doing anything to
really prove it.

3) You have not mentioned replacing Linux on THAT SPECIFIC
MACHINE with FreeBSD, *OR* Linux. Have you, and did they
function superior?

If NT and BSD are working so excellently to you, why do you
bother with Linux considering your preconcieved notions and
assumptions?

If you have a problem, provide the details, and watch the
solution present itself.

If not, then use NT/BSD whatever... nobody will mind a bit.
Linux moves on, and we're all happier for it regardless of what
anyone else experiences - and wether it is just bias, or actual
legitimate problems with the Linux kernel, or a particular
distribution itself.

Just my $0.02.
TTYL

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