From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dann frazier Subject: Re: HPPA and Squeeze Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:35:45 -0600 Message-ID: <20090612153544.GA27867@lackof.org> References: <20090602140734.GC26721@mx0.halon.org.uk> <20090606183600.GA425@lackof.org> <4A31FA76.20103@debian.org> <9905faa50906120053u3f58af9fubac865a921ff4eaa@mail.gmail.com> <9905faa50906120055n2626c787q7c112b9ca1bf1311@mail.gmail.com> <1244816185.4184.3.camel@mulgrave.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Bart Schelstraete , HPPA porters , Debian Release , admin@debian-ports.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1244816185.4184.3.camel@mulgrave.site> List-ID: List-Id: linux-parisc.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 09:16:25AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 09:55 +0200, Bart Schelstraete wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Everybody is talking about the 'random crashes' and 'segfaults' in > > the HPPA version. > > Over here I'm using the hppa on a small HP-UX workstation, and that > > has an uptime of 542 days!. > > So it's not that unstable. > > I even need to say that I had a lot more crashes with the x86 version > > then with the hppa version. > > It seems to be related to what machine you actually have. And the load - buildds for unstable seem to trip over issues that we don't see elsewhere. > I run a B180 > as my network gateway, handling firewall, web, > postfix/postgrey/spamassassin at quite a high volume on a domain. I > also used to run it with a PCMCIA wireless card just for chuckles and > grins (although I stopped that two years ago when I got a linksys). It > runs debian testing and has been completely stable. I only reboot it > for updates and in the seven or so years I've been doing this, I haven't > had any segfaults or crashes ... have to say I only started using debian > kernels on it for the last four or so years, because there used to be > big problems with the ones they built. > > > Just to say that I'm personally not so unhappy with deb hppa, and > > that not everything is bad. > > I think the main class of problem machines are anything with SMP ... > unfortunately, I don't have one, so can't verify. We've tried both SMP and non-SMP kernels. -- dann frazier