Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 17 Nov 1996 10:12:31 -0500 | From | Fred Love <> | Subject | Re: Getting Frustrated fast... |
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Buddha M Buck wrote: > > > > > > > Please dont take this email the wrong way... I appreciate > > every effort those who work on the kernel are putting into their > > projects, and I must say beforehand that this email has been highly > > motivated by pure frustration, but why is so much time being put > > into 2.1.x when 2.0.x is not even stable? From what I hear, > > quite a few people are having my same GPF problem when away from > > the keyboard, ps dies on every system I know that runs 2.0.x, > > and then my kernel decides to re-create a random device from a > > directory and wont let me fix it? > > Upgrading to 2.0.x from 1.2.x involves changing a large number of > support programs, including the procutils. > > My experience is just the opposite: I haven't had any problem with > 2.0.x, and ps doesn't die on my. From my perspective, 2.0.x is very > stable. (I do leave my keyboard often. I usually remain logged on > for weeks, with no ill effects from ps or any other utility. > > Could you give us some more data about the ps problem. What version > of ps? What version of libc? What version of the kernel? If you > compiled your own kernel, what version of gcc? > > > > > Please pardon my anger, > > Mike (mcumings@ecst.csuchico.edu) > > I have also not had a problem with ps. Am running 2.0.23 (SMP) with procps 1.01, long uptimes (2 seeks).
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