Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Mar 2001 22:59:42 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.x very unstable on 8-way IBM 8500R |
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote:
>> I've been playing around with 8-way IBM8500R (8x700MHz Xeon) with 4.5GB >> memory & AIC7xxx SCSI-controller. It's perfectly stable with 2.2-kernel >> (from Red Hat 7) but very erratic on all 2.4-kernels I've tried it with >> (2.4.[012], compiled both with egcs and RH7's gcc-2.96, both share the > >Under redhat 7 you should use kgcc to compile the kernel, since gcc2.96 is >inherently broken(*).
http://www.bero.org/gcc296.html
>> same symptoms). It did have a ServeRAID controller too but IBM suggested >> we take it out since 4500R also had problems with it on 2.4 but it didn't >> make any difference at all. Also tried to turn off highmem support but >> didn't make difference either. > >(*) redhat chose to ship an experimental compiler with this release of > the distribution that has a great many bugs. to ensure proper kernel > compillation another proven version of gcc was included, but called > kgcc instead. You should always use this to compile your kernels > under redhat 7 until the newer version of gcc is released.
http://www.bero.org/gcc296.html
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