Re: U3 broken kernel

[Eric Sisler <esisler westminster lib co us>]

On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 10:04, Brian Long wrote:

> With regards to Bugzilla 132639, we just release U3 internally on
> December 6 without knowing about this bug.  We cannot release U4 without
> complete testing of various applications, but we're considering running
> the U4 kernel on our U3 systems.

> Any thoughts about using the U4 kernel on a system that's primarily U3?

We've had *major* problems on at least one server caused by bug 132639.
Beta kernel-2.4.21-25.EL has been running solidly on said server for 26
days now and it's basically U3 otherwise.  I've pushed it hard and have
been unable to get kswapd to go insane.  ;-)

-Eric

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Eric Sisler <esisler westminster lib co us>
Library Applications Specialist
Westminster Public Library
Westminster, CO USA

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