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

[krebs qkal sap-ag de]

> 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.
i'm running 2.2.9 (without any acs) now for quite some time (43 days 
uptime) on my alphastation 200 4/233 (avanti) with 128MB and RH6.0
(fresh install with no updates, except a new version of nmh) and it's 
working great. if there is a memory leak it's not large (no more than 
10MB by a quick look at top).

/proc/version contains the following info about my system:
Linux version 2.2.9 (root@storm.qkal.sap-ag.de) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 
19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #2 Mon May 17 12:28:21 CEST 1999

so maybe it depends on the system you run it on?

> 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)
that's the great thing about 2.2.9 on my machine. the xserver doesn't
crash any more :-) (Matrox Millenium 2 with 8MB running in 1600x1200x16
with Enlightenment and Gnome). the xserver is now also running for 43 days.

> That is what I see from the wierd memory corruption problems of 2.2.9 -
> going back to 2.2.7 has cured this.
also on problems at all on my machine


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                               Andreas S. Krebs

                CEC Karlsruhe, SAP AG, krebs@qkal.sap-ag.de
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