Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 13 Aug 2001 21:46:38 +0800 | From | hugang <> | Subject | Re: Are we going too fast? |
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 03:43:05 -0400 (EDT) PinkFreud <pf-kernel@mirkwood.net> wrote:
> > I have installed various 2.4.x kernels on 3 seperate systems here. *ALL* > of them have suffered from one malady or another - from the dual PIII with > the VIA chipset and Matrox G400 card, which locks up nicely when I switch > from X to a text console and back to X (but NOT under a uniprocessor > kernel!), to the system with the NCR 53c810 SCSI board, which suffered > random kernel panics anywhere from 2 hours to 5 days after booting, due to > the ncr53c8xx driver, to YET ANOTHER system which has shown a penchant for > crashing (read: no response on console, can use magic sysrq, but fails to > emergency sync) when attempting to use 'ls' on a mounted QNX filesystem > (ls comes up fine, then system crashes - nothing sent to syslog, no errors > on screen, nothing!) - and this latest is with 2.4.8! >
> sauron@rivendell:~$ uptime > 3:17AM up 12 days, 15:20, 2 users, load averages: 1.48, 0.66, 0.31 > sauron@rivendell:~$ uname -a > NetBSD rivendell 1.5.1 NetBSD 1.5.1 (RIVENDELL) #0: Tue Jul 31 22:58:54 > EDT 2001 root@rivendell:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RIVENDELL i386 > sauron@rivendell:~$ dmesg | grep -i sym > siop0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0: Symbios Logic 53c810 (fast scsi) > > (The controller is old - it was made by NCR before it became Symbios Logic > - hence, why I was using the NCR driver for it, rather than the Symbios > driver, in Linux.) > > Working on 13 days uptime. That's well over twice the uptime for Linux on > that box. That's what happens when the kernel has bugs. > > Take this rant for what you will. Personally, I switched from Windows to > Linux 5 years ago for the stability. If I need to switch OSs again to > continue to have stability, I will. Somehow, I suspect, if kernel > development continues down this path, many others will wind up switching > to other OSs as well. >
I think this problem can fix if your can report the crash message . (Oops,...) Beacuse the netbsd can work fine on it , So I true the linux kernel also can work fine on it.
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