Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Oct 1999 18:18:46 -0700 (PDT) | From | Joe <> | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.2.11 crash... |
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Mike, I read your posting on the Linux kernel mailing list about having problems with 2.2.11. I had problems with 2.2.11 after about 1.5 days of uptime, and told you to avoid 2.2.11 like the plague. That was a while ago and suggested that you try 2.2.12 and you were worried about the mem leak in 2.2.12. Well the mem leak in 2.2.12 is smaller than the one in 2.2.11. There is a patch agains 2.2.11 so if you are bent on staying with 2.2.11 then get the patch. I have had 2.2.12 and my machine has been up for 15 days so far(9:01pm up 14 days 23:01), I had a problem after 9 days and rebooted this time it is about 15. There is also a patch for 2.2.12 and its slow page mem leak, but I am not sure how to apply that as patch -p0 < <patch> did not seem to work for me, but I am sure it was something I was doing wrong.
As far as the vmware goes, when you install or upgrade vmware you can have it build the modules for you automagically like I do. For the most part this seem better, as usually it does not have modules for the kernel / system. I have had a few problems with the various builds of vmware including the one that you have. Eveer since I started using vmware my cdrom has been going south. I am not sure if it is vmware or if it is just a cheep cdrom drive.
FYI: About vmware and the source. They do deliver the source to the modules, it is located in the vmware-distrib/lib/modules/source directory as a few tarball. So if there is any problems related to vmware's modules it would be possible to look at the source code. It includes the makefiles and everything.
Something else to keep in mind about vmware is that they are writing there own drivers for hardware, their bidirectional parallel port uses a /dev/parport* device, I guess this allows them a direct hardware access method (my best guess).
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