From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 16:47:17 +0000 From: David Riley Subject: kernel.org kernels and unreliability To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Reply-to: happyoscar42@usa.net Message-id: <38C7D58F.C8970B7E@usa.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Has anyone else noticed unreliable memory problems using kernel.org's 2.3.x kernels? Especially while compiling, random things start happening (more specifically, I get random page faults, signal 11 terminations of cc1 and bits of code are randomly dropped which reappear when I restart compiling), but I have also noticed that any large files that I download over ftp (and probably other protocols) have pieces dropped from them. At first I blamed this on the ethernet card on the other end (I have an FTP server running on a K6-2 linux box that says "eth0: tx interrupt but no status"), but MacOS downloads perfectly from it, and it has no problem receiving. I would use paul's kernel source, but my PPP connenction runs behind a firewall which blocks out almost every port (which includes Quake*, rsync, and sometimes even http when the operators screw up) and I woun't get my DSL line until June. ;-( I know I could use the tarballs of Paul's kernel source, but it's easy to download a small patch every update than a 10-12 MB tarball over a PPP link. If it makes a difference, I'm running on a 7300 (604e, hammerhead memory controller) and this has been happening since kernel 2.3.42 (when I upgraded from vger-2.3.18) and includes kernel 2.3.50 which hardly works on i386 (it breaks , among other things, xfs, so I can't run X) as well. -- "Your mouse has been moved. Windows 95 must be restarted for change to take effect." ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/