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[Bob Raymond]

Collins wrote:

>On Sat, 01 Jun 2002 10:08:26 -0400 Jerry McBride
><mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>On Fri, 31 May 2002 17:52:25 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama!
>><netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
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>>>I haven't bothered to apply those two patches, but was planning to
>>>whenever 2.4.19 came out.  So what do you mean by 'flaky'?
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>>With the mentioned kernel source and patches, I've been getting
>>random lockups. No complaints in
>>messages... it just works well then it's a rock. If I reboot the
>>machine into a different kernel, no problems
>>at all then. Since experiencing the random bit, I haven't used XFS
>>with that kernel. 
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>>I wsa just curious if anyone else was tinkering along the same lines
>>as I was...
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>gentoo has a lot of experience selecting and supplying kernel patches
>that work, and they haven't yet offered the kernel preemptive and
>low-latency patches along with XFS - just one or the other.  My bet
>is: this is not a stable choice at present.
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No, it's a terrible choice.  I've got XFS on Gentoo, and I badly messed 
up my system to the point where it needed a fresh start.  I got the 
Crypto sources, because they include preempt, low latency, XFS, and the 
most important, USB 2.0 (EHCI), simply because I've now got my first USB 
2.0 device (Smart Media reader).  I put in everything that looked fancy 
with the performance enhancing (preempt, low latency, IDE taskfile), one 
at a time, two at a time, all, etc.  My system is at a screeching halt, 
and the only kernel that truly works well is the one on the installation 
CD.  Of course, it could be the binutils-2.12 and gcc-3.1, but I don't 
really know.

Bob Raymond