Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:27:15 -0700 (PDT) | From | Chris Rankin <> | Subject | Re: Which is currently the most stable 2.4 kernel? |
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Hi,
The UP server does the PPPoE, so that's OK. Has anyone torture-tested any of the recent kernels? For instance, I subsequently read a posting from Alan Cox saying that 2.4.10 didn't survive overnight for him, implying that he occasionally roasts penguins in some kind of server-dungeon...
Cheers, Chris
--- Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, October 02, 2001 11:05:02 AM -0700 Chris > Rankin > <rankincj@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > All that the servers would be doing would be > > connecting to the Internet periodically using > PPPoE > > and DSL (with NAT), forwarding emails and > performing > > various CPU-bound tasks. They should both have > ample > > available memory and should not need to swap much, > if > > at all. > > > > Does anyone have any kernel recommendations / > > counter-recommendations, please? One server is > SMP, > > the other is UP, and both are Intel architecture. > > PPP is not SMP safe in 2.4.x. You'll run into > problems on any kernel > there. Even on single processor systems, you need > the ppp patch in > 2.4.9-ac16 or 2.4.11pre1. > > Other than that, 2.4.10 + andrea's vmtweaks patch > does well. 2.4.9-ac18 is > a good alternative. > > -chris >
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