Re: Stable Alpha on 2.2? How do we build a stable install?

["Dr. David Gilbert" <dg px uk com>]

On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Eric Bohm wrote:

> I've been having the same instability problems listed on the various
> other threads about RH6.0.  

Who hasn't.....

> Problems:
> -The system will reboot spontaneously.  

I've not had that.

> -The kernel (2.2.5, 2.2.7, 2.2.10) appears to have memory leaks.  I can
> do something simple like compile a kernel (without kernel modules
> loaded or X running) and suddenly find memory use at 180M when all is
> done and I'm sitting at a shell prompt with next to nothing running.

Definitly steer clear of 2.2.9 and I suspect 2.2.10; they have a wierd
memory corruption bug.  2.2.7 seems fine for me.  It may be eating RAM
somewhere but I'd kind of presumed it was just disappearing into buffers
and caching.
 
> > -The most frequent problem is a SEGV to my X process which locks the
> display.  Then I switch to another box on my lan and ssh over to
> reboot it.  And not I'm not running the Font Server.  The problem
> persists using gdm or not.  

Arghh! - yes - this is driving me nuts (even on 2.2.7)! On my system it
almost always happens when I close a window (not every time otherwise I
really would be mad!). (Matrox Millenium 2 with 4MB running in 8bpp mode
with Enlightenment and Gnome on top)

> - A nagging problem is that I can't compile any large package (like
> the kernel) in one attempt.  cc gets a variety of nasty signals or
> outright confused about how to compile something.  Running the make
> again will get me further through the package.  The same stopping
> points aren't repeated on attempts to replicate the scenario, so it
> appears to be a problem outside the compilation system itself.

That is what I see from the wierd memory corruption problems of 2.2.9 -
going back to 2.2.7 has cured this.

Dave

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