[Gllug] Linux 2.4.12

[William Palfreman]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Simon Stewart wrote:

> Downloaded linux 2.4.12 today, and am quietly compiling it, and there
> are screenfulls of errors like:
> 
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.12/drivers/acpi/include/platform/acgcc.h:104: warning: `wbinvd' redefined
> 
> Anyone else seen this, or shall I put it down to advanced muppetry?

I know there was a problem with the .bz2 file - I don't know, I've been
using patches.

More generally, I don't think 2.4 has been going very well recently.  In
fact, I would say it has got worse since 2.4.6 - that was the last
genuinely stable version for me.  I've been having a lot of host-specific
TCP/IP problems after that - all sorts of sites including
mail.btinternet.com on 110 and moongate.btinternet.com on 25 - both kind
of important to me - haven't worked properly on any machine running 2.4.7,
8, 9 and 10.  

I've gone back to 2.2.19 for everything now - not seen a single weirdness
ever.  I do find it feels a bit slower - naturally I haven't bothered to
do any performance testing to back this up :-) - but it does do everything
I need really.

Also, I am a bit concerned about what I read on kernel sites.  Until
recently I never really looked at them, but now I'm reading things like 
this, when one person complains about 2.4 instability: says Alan Cox: "You
certainly aren't the only one.  2.4.10 both really alarms me and doesn't
survive overnight on my test box."  Great.  I'm giving 2.4.12 a miss this
time. 

Non-kernel related, I am also plagued by named unreliability.  It has been
like this since I switched to BT anytime.  Whenever it makes a DNS request
through my firewall and the on-demand link is down, named stops working.  
127.0.0.1:  Connection timed out. I have to kill and restart it.  This
ends up happening at least once a day just by chance.  Doesn't seem happen
with Freeserve.  I must get round to testing this properly and reporting
it to the BIND8 list - have just been lazily restarting it. 

Bill.

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