x86_64 stability query

x86_64 stability query

[Koby Leung]

Hi folks,

  I have a new install of an athlon 64 + ati p200 chipset running FC4. I've
installed the x86_64 binary on my machine and recompiled the kernel to run Xen,
and have been running several guests with dns and dhcp services, and a web server.

  I am, however, seeing a kernel oops every couple days, which I've yet been
unable to capture.

My question is just whether this is expected behavior from xen 3, since it is
listed as 'unstable'? Or if I have messed up my install somehow? I've been
running tests under the stock redhat kernels, and they are holding up fine so
far, so it appears to be something in my dom0 kernel, or the xen system and I'm
trying to figure out which.

Hopefully it's okay to post this question here.

Thanks!

Koby

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Re: x86_64 stability query

[Chris Wright]

* Koby Leung (job@legenko.com) wrote:
>   I am, however, seeing a kernel oops every couple days, which I've yet been
> unable to capture.

Be useful to get the oops, as well as which hg cset you're using.  And to
answer your question, x86_64 in -unstable has been pretty unstable in
the last week.  Try a current pull, there's been many good fixes in the
last couple of days.

thanks,
-chris

Re: x86_64 stability query

[Koby Leung]

Hey Chris,

 Thanks for the quick reply.

 Yeah - that's what I thought. For kernel hang oops', is the serial console the
best way to go to get this oops?

 For immediate stability then, would it be recommended to run a 32bit OS and the
32bit Xen builds?

Thanks!

Koby
 
Quoting Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>:

> * Koby Leung (job@legenko.com) wrote:
> >   I am, however, seeing a kernel oops every couple days, which I've yet
> been
> > unable to capture.
> 
> Be useful to get the oops, as well as which hg cset you're using.  And to
> answer your question, x86_64 in -unstable has been pretty unstable in
> the last week.  Try a current pull, there's been many good fixes in the
> last couple of days.
> 
> thanks,
> -chris
> 




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Re: x86_64 stability query

[Chris Wright]

* Koby Leung (job@legenko.com) wrote:
>  Yeah - that's what I thought. For kernel hang oops', is the serial console the
> best way to go to get this oops?

Definitely.

>  For immediate stability then, would it be recommended to run a 32bit OS and the
> 32bit Xen builds?

The -unstable tree is the development tree.  So perhaps you'd want to
follow -testing for a more stable environment (this is effectively the
stable branch).

thanks,
-chris