2.4.18+ 867 Mhz QuickSilver = totally crazy

[Christopher Murtagh]

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Chaz Kelsh wrote:
>The 2.4.18 kernel is definitely broken, at least for 867mhz
>Quicksilvers.

 Really?? One of my busiest machines is running on a G4/867 without any
problems. It takes on about 170,000 (dynamic) page requests per day and
has been working like a charm:

[chris@cochise chris]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu             : 7450, altivec supported
temperature     : 1-76 C (uncalibrated)
clock           : 866MHz
revision        : 2.1 (pvr 8000 0201)
bogomips        : 865.07
machine         : PowerMac3,5
motherboard     : PowerMac3,5 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
L2 cache        : 256K unified
memory          : 896MB
pmac-generation : NewWorld
[chris@cochise chris]$ uname -a
Linux cochise.wcg.mcgill.ca 2.4.18pre1-2 #1 Sun Jan 27 15:10:06 EST 2002 ppc unknown
[chris@cochise chris]$ uptime
  9:24pm  up 72 days, 40 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.45, 0.28, 0.23

 Then again, it isn't running X, just apache with mod_php.

 You might want to check out your compile options. I heard from BenH that
we should now be using the SUNGEM ethernet drivers rather than BMAC and
GMAC. Also, if you don't need it, take Appletalk and HFS support out of
the kernel. This seems to make them more stable aparently when you have a
lot of RAM.

Cheers,

Chris

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