Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:53:02 -0200 | From | Alexandre Hautequest <> | Subject | Re: Ok, I give up... |
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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....
Why don't you try Slackware? I have some production machines, all for web and databases (oracle and sybase) and uptimes are about 120+ days... now they are going down to a update -- i'm changing all to slack 7.
Of course you will need to learn a bit, but knowledge is not too much :)
Cheers,
-- Alexandre Hautequest - Linux User #116289 "When I'm on the road, I'm indestructible. No one can stop me. But they try..."
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