Re: What is the most stable kernel to date?

[Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>]

> > > Has anyone conducted any tests to determine what is the most stable (as in
> > > reliable) kernel available?
> > 
> > There is no such test because there's no way to describe "being stable"
> > in formulas.
> > 
> > You might as well like to stick with a kernel that has worked for you
> > for a long enough time. If you don't need the features of 2.4, go with
> > 2.2-latest.
> 
> Well, about stability: I'm running 2.4.19-rc1-aa2 for some days now, I 
> didn't yet have any problems. My sparc64, meanwhile, is running 2.5.24-ct1, 
> stable for more than a week of uptime yet.

As for me,

$ arch
i686
$ uname -r
2.4.19-pre10-ac2
$ uptime
  6:51pm  up 36 days, 19:14, 19 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
(config: p2, 2 ide controllers, raid0, 2 network adapters)
--
$ arch 
sparc
$ uname -r
2.4.19-pre10
$ uptime
  6:51pm  up 38 days,  8:46,  7 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
(config: smp ss10, scsi, raid0, 1 network adapter)

The latter is with my dynamic-nocache patch included.


T.