Hi,
I am currently pondering the wonderous lack of stability which has been
series 2.4 of the Linux kernel. We all know about the various trials and
tribulations, the vm switchover and many other things. The fact remains
that I have seen a certain java process repeatedly kill 2.4, dead. The
latest problem for me has been with loopback (some probably saw my post to
lkml on that one - its now in private discussion)[0].
Anyway, I've had numerous very bad experiences with 2.4 which have been
both embarassing and as an outsider would have put me off for use in a
commercial environment (quite frankly, Solaris and friends are far more
stable than 2.4 has ever been*). Please, no flamewars or personal attacks,
let's just see what people honestly think from their experiences.
Thanks,
Jon.
* No Mr. Kolb, I'm not renouncing my blatent love for all things GNU, I'm
just making a point. Besides, you're a closet BSD user...
[0] And as an offtopic aside, I'm watching a 2.2.20 box having wicked fun
this evening randomly ceasing all fs when put under heavy filesystem
load. Looks like ext3 is not happy running on this logical volume.
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