Re: 2.4.11 don't work yet.

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 13:02 10-10-2001 +0100, nic wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 October 2001 12:24, Seth Mos wrote:
> >
> > >Software info:
> > >Machine is RedHat 7.1 + glibc (and other bits) from 7.1.94
> > >gcc-2.96-85
> >
> > Can you compile with compat-egcs and try again?
> > Sometimes weird things happen with xfs and 2.96-??
>
> I've seen this said before (most often by your good self :-) but I've always
> built my 2.4.x-xfs kernels with it... including the one I'm running now.
>
> Will try and let you know,
> nic


It compiles most of the times but if you push the kernel hard enough some 
things budge. The mandrake kernel I am testing on is compiled with 2.96-85 
and is working as one should expect.

I have uploaded a new mandrake kernel to my website which has a working 
"make install". The kernel is fairly stable and includes the Gigabit 
drivers for the box.

I am hitting it with mongo.pl with 50 processes on a 2GB dual 1.13Ghz box 
and it survives in a normal fashion. No hangs and no IO stalls.
The benchmark time for "create" on a ext2 fs is down from 4200 secs to 2600 
secs. This is the performance of Redhat-2.4.2 vs. Mandrake-2.4.8.

Maybe someone is willing to convert the original mandrake source rpm for 
use on redhat/suse.

If you are trying to convert the source rpm you will have to make sure that 
arch/i386/boot/install.sh is not altered. Mandrake added a -a argument for 
their installkernel program which confuses the redhat (and possibly SuSE) 
installkernel utility.

Some XFS results are expected to follow soon. If people want a more up to 
date XFS kernel based on a -ac kernel this is probably a good choice.

Cheers

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.