On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 02:20 AM, Jeff Workman wrote:
> I just built and installed 1.6L out of CVS today and still having 
> problems with the machine locking up during heavy I/O as a NFS server. 
>  At least it's not locking up during other I/O operations now, or at 
> least I couldn't get it to hang.  After installing the 1.6L kernel I 
> was able to build the entire userland with a -j4 without it hanging.

   Do you know offhand if a 1.6L kernel coexist nicely with a 1.6 
userland?

   Is it stable otherwise?  (the system I'm thinking about is a 
production machine...the added performance would be a big benefit for 
me)

> FTP speed is much better I had previously reported 2.19 
> megabyte/second, tonight I got 5.2 megabyte/second.  There were still 
> several pauses for no apparent reason during the download, though, 
> some lasting several seconds.

   Wow, that's quite a difference in throughput.  I wonder what's 
happening with those delays; I haven't seen anything like that on my 
1.6 system.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire           "She's a cheek pincher.  I have scars."
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