Is kenel 2.4 as stable as 2.2.18? Any reason to not use 2.4 on a production server?
Hey, I know this is an odd, stupid sounding question, but I can't decide if I should use 2.4 or 2.2.18. I'm setting up two servers are rather important, they've got to work properly without trouble. There's many good reasons to use 2.4, what worries me is that I haven't used 2.4 yet anywhere, so I'm not personally assured of how stable it is. Has anyone had trouble with it, or is it as rock-solid as 2.2.18? TIA ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
I know this is an odd, stupid sounding question, but I can't decide if I should use 2.4 or 2.2.18. I'm setting up two servers are rather important, they've got to work properly without trouble.
There's many good reasons to use 2.4, what worries me is that I haven't used 2.4 yet anywhere, so I'm not personally assured of how stable it is.
Has anyone had trouble with it, or is it as rock-solid as 2.2.18?
My only problem was that for some reason networking would quit, since I don't know enough about linux yet, I can't say for sure if the kernel was involved in this problem or not, but 2.2.18 works fine. Also VMware would not install with 2.4 on an SMP box. My biggest complaint with suse at this point is poor graphics performance with XFree 3 and XFree ver 4 does not seem to work correctly. Fonts look terrible and printing is disproportionate. So I am stuck with ver 3 which at least works properly. -Pete
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 01:40:40PM -0500, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
Has anyone had trouble with it, or is it as rock-solid as 2.2.18?
I am using it on a Samba server at work, and at home on my internal network. I have only noticed a few bugs that were not kernel problems per se. Rather they were config problems (i.e NFS on SuSE with kernel 2.4.x). I think it is pretty stable. - v -- Victor R. Cardona vcardona@home.com "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!"
Hi, Again as home user, had some problems with 2.4 on both boxes ( scsi one and my other SMP 2x800 Mhz.) My problems were related to nvidia. That's why I very quickly upgraded to 2.4.2 ( and SuSE put quite fast the 2.4.2 kernel on there ftp ). Don't forget to upgrade modutils (2.4.2) : ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse_update/7.1/kernel A few days ago, there were some nice threads also on System.map, kernels headers on this list. Try to read them, they are very instructif. I think that if you need IPtables, 2.4.2 is better than 2.4 ( again, more info was on the list ). 2.4.2 has been running since +/- 1 month on both PC, whithout any problems, but they are not heavy duty machines. ( I've an internal ftp, nfs, samba and web server ). Filip. Le Samedi 7 Avril 2001 20:40, vous avez écrit :
Hey,
I know this is an odd, stupid sounding question, but I can't decide if I should use 2.4 or 2.2.18. I'm setting up two servers are rather important, they've got to work properly without trouble.
There's many good reasons to use 2.4, what worries me is that I haven't used 2.4 yet anywhere, so I'm not personally assured of how stable it is.
Has anyone had trouble with it, or is it as rock-solid as 2.2.18?
TIA
---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator
Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
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