Re: status of Linux on Alpha?

[Måns Rullgård]

Marc Giger <gigerstyle@xxxxxx> writes:

> Hi Ivan, Hi Måns
>
> I haven't found the time to look deeper into the problem. All what I can
> say ATM is, it is real and exists!
>
> Ivan, perhaps you can give me some useful advise how to debug this
> successfully? I think we should begin to try isolating the problem to a
> single part of the kernel. 
> Is it possible that we have a deadlock in the VFS part? After a
> while every process that accesses a file will be blocked (already
> described).

We could start by comparing .config files.  Mine is attached.  I've
been running a 2.6.3 kernel with that configuration since it was
released.  I compiled a gentoo installation using that kernel, so I'd
say it's quite stable.

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Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxx

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