Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Mar 2001 17:04:09 -0800 (PST) | From | "Dr. Kelsey Hudson" <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.x very unstable on 8-way IBM 8500R |
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Matilainen Panu (NRC/Helsinki) 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(*).
> 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.
talk to you later,
Kelsey Hudson khudson@ctica.com Software Engineer Compendium Technologies, Inc (619) 725-0771 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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