On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Norman Gaywood wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 07:42:33AM +1000, Res wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Wade Hampton wrote: > > > Are these SMP machines or P4 with hyperthread enabled and > > > running the SMP kernel? If so, there is a known bug (and it bit me, > > > so I'm not using fedora except at home). > > > > bingo :) SMP boxes... single CPU boxes couldnt handle the load our mail > > and web servers do.... so im glad its not just me *sigh* > > No you are not the only one to have the problem with the SMP FC1 kernel. > > To get stability on the several SMP servers I run, I use FC1 with the > RH9 kernel. These systems run really well. The RH9 kernel is still being > patched for security problems. When that stops, and if the FC1 kernel is > not fixed, I might have to try building the EL kernel from src RPM. Well slackware is now runnig the news server. the irc server i left as the sole fedora box, i mean its only irc <G> only takes 40 seconds to upload and recompile the daemon, interesting you run the RH9 kernel which yes like you said is still solid as, I am thinking of of putting 2.6.2 on it, I mean it cant fsck it up any worse than it i now <G> > > Other than the SMP kernel, I think FC1 is the best linux distro I've ever > used. The package management alone, with rpm and yum, is so good on FC1. > I could not bare to go back to even RH9. as a desktop fedora is fine, well so long as its a single CPU machine :) -- Regards, Res
