On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Brian A. Stumm wrote: > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Matt Judge wrote: > > > James Couzens wrote: > > > > >Everyone, > > > > > >I spent several hours gathering this information, and I hope that some of > > >you can find it useful. Let me preface these results with the fact that I > > >was unable to run 2.4.9 on the SMP machine because it would kernel panic > > >(likely SMP I don't know but I didn't have the time to figure it out, so I > > >used another test machine). > > > > > > > > I am bored with this. > > > > For mysIelf, and probably for a lot of people, it is not possible to run > > a 2.4.9 kernel due to people running more recent hardware, and file > > systems, that are not supported by the 2.4.9 kernel - and patches are > > neither available nor sufficient to get their modern hardware to run on > > such an old kernel. > > What recent hardware that is not compatible? I've got a brand new system > running on this age of kernel. I don't know how well the GeForce card is > working on my system but I also don't have a monitor on my box, nor > keyboard or mouse. I have exactly two wires to/from my server. Power and > Network. I use ext3 filesystem as well. Don't tell me you run X on your > server and have it double as a workstation...
/me references you back to the original posters comment: "Let me preface these results with the fact that I was unable to run 2.4.9 on the SMP machine because it would kernel panic (likely SMP I don't know but I didn't have the time to figure it out, so I used another test machine)." :) Kind of a big offput for people with SMP machines. I for one don't have the time to play around with different kernels and see what makes the best performance. From what I have seen with the 2.6.0-test<$x> kernels is various problems from not booting at all (boot loader won't load the kernel) to hanging if no mouse present... john _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
