On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 09:16:25AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 09:55 +0200, Bart Schelstraete wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Everybody is talking about the 'random crashes' and 'segfaults' in > > the HPPA version. > > Over here I'm using the hppa on a small HP-UX workstation, and that > > has an uptime of 542 days!. > > So it's not that unstable. > > I even need to say that I had a lot more crashes with the x86 version > > then with the hppa version. > > It seems to be related to what machine you actually have. And the load - buildds for unstable seem to trip over issues that we don't see elsewhere. > I run a B180 > as my network gateway, handling firewall, web, > postfix/postgrey/spamassassin at quite a high volume on a domain. I > also used to run it with a PCMCIA wireless card just for chuckles and > grins (although I stopped that two years ago when I got a linksys). It > runs debian testing and has been completely stable. I only reboot it > for updates and in the seven or so years I've been doing this, I haven't > had any segfaults or crashes ... have to say I only started using debian > kernels on it for the last four or so years, because there used to be > big problems with the ones they built. > > > Just to say that I'm personally not so unhappy with deb hppa, and > > that not everything is bad. > > I think the main class of problem machines are anything with SMP ... > unfortunately, I don't have one, so can't verify. We've tried both SMP and non-SMP kernels. -- dann frazier -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
