Kernel 2.0.30 pre-X SMP (in)stability report

Agus Budy Wuysang (fswmis@rad.net.id)
Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:17:34 +0700

Before the real 2.0.31 is released, I would like to share
my own experience with the prepatches. So far I have found
that:
- Prepatch 2 is the most reliable/stable.
- Prepatch 5 & 9 is not stable for my hardware.

Symptom:
- Total lock up during heavy load & swapping.
- no log in syslogs.

Kernel configuration:
- SMP enabled.
- QNX style scheduling patch applied.

Hardware configuration:
- Dell OptiPlex GXPro
- Dual PPro 200MHz 256K
- 32Mb memory
- Matrox MGA Millenium 4Mb ram
- 3Com 59x Vortex series network card
- Adaptec 2940 w/ bios V1.11. This is going to be replaced soon
with Buslogic (either the Flashpoint or 948), I will retest
and report the pre-patch#9 result afterward.
- 4 1Gb SCSI2 Hd
- Pioneer DRM604X changer
- HP Surestore 6000

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