Re: [SLE] Whole system repeatedly freezing for a second under high cpu load (with UDMA!)
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Mark Gray schrieb: [snip]
If you have a fast connection to the net you might want to follow the 2.4.21-pre* releases and help them debug it -- according to
finger @finger.kernel.org
The latest prepatch for the stable Linux kernel tree is: 2.4.21-pre3
You know: I didn't want this really: I finally wanted to be a linux kernel "end user" - no probs with the stability and performance (more or less the latter) of my linus kernel.
Technically the 2.4.* kernels are not Linus kernels -- as soon as he feels that a new stable branch has too few bugs to be much fun anymore, he turns it over to somebody, and starts a new development branch. From what I understand, he does not even have access to any computers running 2.4.* -- so the Linus kernel at the moment is actually the latest development kernel (along with whatever modifications he has made in his "bitkeeper" tree). The problem with the 2.4.* branch at the moment is two fold: 1. The maintainers are prone to readily accept backports of 2.5.* features (which are still very buggy even on 2.5.*) and more importantly, 2. Almost everyone running the 2.4.* kernels wants total stability, so they are not testing the 2.4.*-pre* kernels. Without a larger testing base, bugs in the released versions are inevitable.
I just want to do normal things that work under windows (and since XP the XPerience "feels" better but is not, at the end).
My excuse for using only the stable branch (k_deflt-2.4.19-174 at the moment:-) is that I am working on reverse engineering the Winmodem in my laptop, and I do not want to worry about other people's bugs. (In my defense, as soon as Linus releases a 2.6.0pre* I will run it on at least one of my machines and do my debugging duty :-) [snip]
Mark Gray wrote:
My excuse for using only the stable branch (k_deflt-2.4.19-174 at the moment:-) is that I am working on reverse engineering the Winmodem in my laptop, and I do not want to worry about other people's bugs. (In my defense, as soon as Linus releases a 2.6.0pre* I will run it on at least one of my machines and do my debugging duty :-)
Hate to tell ya but k_deflt-2.4.19-174 also has many things backported from the 2.5. Just as a BIG for instance, the O(1) scheduler..... Mark
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