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Subject: Re: stable snap for smp? 
In-Reply-To: Message from Anthony Kimball <alk@pobox.com> 
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On Fri, 14 May 1999 19:34:43 CDT, Anthony Kimball wrote:
>
>If anyone has applied reasonable stress to a recent MP kernel,
>preferrably with X, VESA, VM86, and found it stable, do please report
>on your last cvs update time: I, for one, would very much like to
>isolate a fairly stable post-newbus world.  Presumably this would be
>helpful to other readers as well, it being so much easier to bounce
>between worlds which are more nearly contemporaneous.

I've been running 3.1-STABLE cvsup-ed on Sat May 8 at about 3:30am or
thereabouts.  It always starts up xdm, and my desktop is KDE, I use exmh
and Netscape daily, used doscmd a couple of days ago to burn some
EPROMs, used gimp and sane to scan and edit some photos, just completed
a buildworld with -j4 of 3.2-STABLE, and always run setiathome (new
version 1.1 just released).

The system is a dual PII/300, 256Mb RAM, and 256Mb swap across two
UW-SCSI disks.  The only IDE peripheral is a CD-ROM, and it's still
using the old acd/ATAPI driver.  Soundblaster AWE64 card works just fine
with Luigi's drivers.

The only thing I don't have in the kernel is VESA as the machine always
fires up xdm.  I have the DDB code in as well INVARIANTS turned on.
Nothing is dynamically loaded - I always build a custom kernel with
everything I need in it to ease debugging and to be sure no module is
out-of-date.

(I used to be running 4.0-CURRENT but hit the already-mentioned strange
lockup with no debug, no dump, and no clue.  I had to get some pay-for
work done so I backed up to 3.1-STABLE and it seems to be fine since.)

Hope this helps.  I intend to update to 3.2-STABLE today...


	-- Parag Patel


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