* Mark Hounschell (markh@compro.net) [020328 05:22]:
Either way I was wondering if anyone knows of specific things in SuSE Enterprise kernel that could possibly help with this kind of thing. I can see that is is a 2.4.7 kernel from the info in their site. Is there anyway to get a copy of it without buying the $1000 package?
There's nothing special about the kernel on SLES. The additional cost is because of the maintainance--Oracle, SAP, etc. don't want to re-certify unless it's absolutely necessary so we're committed to maintaining the old kernel. There's also a a 2.4.16 update for SLES I believe but running it may invalidate your Oracle/SAP support contract.
Is Dell giving me a line of sh#t. We have tried MANY kernels and also even Red Hat 7.2 like Dell says they support. We are back to using SuSE 7.3 with a vanilla 2.4.18 kernel. We have tried all the SuSE kernels available. I think we have been wasting time trying all these different kernels.
"enterprise kernel" is certainly BS, but just ask them what kernel they want you to run (which might even be some old buggy RH kernel) and see if the problem still exists. If it does, then tell them to send you new hardware. -- -ckm