At 09:58 +0100 Michael Renner wrote: >> >devfs kernel + userland daemon running, local APIC (uniprocessor system) >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> Bzzt. Do you *need* devfs? Personally I've found it very crashy. > >not necessarily, haven't got any problems with it though. I'll deactivate >it in the next kernel... what kind of instability did you experience with >devfs? Random crashes, usually after not too much uptime. Nothing deterministic, I'm afraid, except to say that rebuilding without devfs made it more stable.. >> never hurts to run memtest86 even on RAM you thought good > >i'll try that too but i doubt that the ram is bad, i had uptimes around 60 >days without any probles (which where only interrupted by kernel upgrades >and/or those dreaded ext3 crashes) I had one machine which had passed memtest86, went into production for a couple of months, ever-so-suddenly started crashing after minutes of uptime, re-ran memtest86 and there were *thousands* of errors :-/ "You do the math," Matt :)
