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SubjectRe: Ok, I give up...
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
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try..."

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