Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

From: Bron Gondwana
Date: Mon Jan 29 2007 - 17:37:52 EST


On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:04:48PM -0500, Mike Houston wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:30:00 -0500
> Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16?
> >
> > e.g. how many downloads does it get?
>
> I've often wondered that myself, as I'm concerned for it to continue
> to be maintained. I'm very appreciative of what Adrian is doing with
> it. (Thanks!)

We're still running 2.6.16 kernels on a bunch of machines, though 2.6.19
has been looking pretty nice on the couple of machines that are testing
it. 2.6.17 and 2.6.18 felt less stable.

We do a lot of Cyrus which does a lot of MMAP - and we also use the
Areca driver - which are both strong reasons to move to 2.6.19.2, but
if the MMAP fix was ported back to 2.6.16 we might consider staying
there instead.

Bron.
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