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Re: timebomb
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Carp [khijol Sysadmin])
Sat Jul 22 19:17:53 1995
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 11:03:50 +0100
From: "Ed Carp [khijol Sysadmin]" <erc@khijol.intele.net>
To: Marcus Nilsson <marcus@kuai.se>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950722120932.4905B-100000@zen.kuai.se>
On Sat, 22 Jul 1995, Marcus Nilsson wrote:
> We are an Internet Provider that began with Linux 0.99.8, and we have had
> many crashes since then. However we have stuck with Linux anyway, and
> 1.2.x was a huge improvement i stability. Now I read in a comp.linux.
> group, that prior to 1.2.9, there was a race condition which made linux
> crash when there was high network and serial activity. We are running
> 1.2.10 at the moment, and linux still crashes at least 2 times a week. No
> kernel panics, just a freeze. The only thing you can do is switching the
> consoles, but you can not write anything.
> As a programmer myself, I know that this kind of problems is the worst.
> "It hangs sometimes". But you did fix something in 1.2.9, as stated
> above, so perhaps you should take a look at it again. Again, we have not
> any serial activity, but a heavy network load(I even linked /etc/password
> and /etc/shadow over NFS, NIS didn't work, it just crashed).
>
> Until then, for us, Linux is still a ticking timebomb.
I am running 1.1.95, and have been doing so since March or so. I am not
an ISP, but have about 150 people who have accounts here, using email,
irc, etc. I also have a Web server running, and am sitting directly on
the net via SLIP 24 hours a day.
I have had absolutely no problems running 1.1.95, and am sort of afraid
to upgrade further. ;) Hope this helps - maybe you oughta back down to a
pre-1.2 kernel?
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