Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

[Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:04:48PM -0500, Mike Houston wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:30:00 -0500
> Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16?
> > 
> > e.g. how many downloads does it get?
> 
> I've often wondered that myself, as I'm concerned for it to continue
> to be maintained. I'm very appreciative of what Adrian is doing with
> it. (Thanks!)

We're still running 2.6.16 kernels on a bunch of machines, though 2.6.19
has been looking pretty nice on the couple of machines that are testing
it.  2.6.17 and 2.6.18 felt less stable.

We do a lot of Cyrus which does a lot of MMAP - and we also use the 
Areca driver - which are both strong reasons to move to 2.6.19.2, but
if the MMAP fix was ported back to 2.6.16 we might consider staying
there instead.

Bron.