Is SMP stability any better?

[Keven Ring]

Res wrote:

>On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Ben Stringer wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 00:04, Res wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, WipeOut wrote:
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>>>>Just wondering if anyone has found the latest SMP kernel and more stable..
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>>>>I found it fine for the first day and a half but after that it started
>>>>hanging the system more than once per day.. It seems that this issue
>>>>will be around till FC2 comes out since it has not been fixed in all the
>>>>kernel releases since FC1 came out..
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>>>forget it... avoid like the plague
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>>I've run each FC1 smp kernel round the clock and had no hangs with any
>>of them. Asus CUV4X-DSL, 2 x 1Ghz PIII. I always install everything. My
>>systems tends to run for 30-40 days between reboots.
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>>After reading the quoted bug report, I'm feeling that I'm somehow
>>lucky....
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>very lucky, like maybe the only one :)
>however you should go for alot longer than 30 days, should be hundreds of
>days, like 7.3 used to and 9 (never ran 8)
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Well, not quite the only one... :)

I have had no problems [dual XEON 2.0].  However, I also installed 
everything....

Reading the bug report, *most* people seem to think that it is related 
to NFS/SMB mounts.  So, this morning, I NFS mounted a drive.  I'll let 
you know in a couple of days... :)

The other thing that seems to be related is many people do *not* install 
everything, rather they install a server or workstation.  However, Ben 
and I have both installed the kitchen sink.

In terms of running of hundreds of days, unlikely with new kernels on 
about a bi-monthly basis... :)

BTW:

[keven at cirrus ~]$ uname -r
2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp
[keven at cirrus ~]$ uptime
 08:49:20  up 4 days, 21:25,  5 users,  load average: 0.83, 0.80, 0.73