Re: Kernel 2.4.5-pre3

[Roman Z. <zi...@li...>]

Hi,

Ken Tyler wrote:

> 2.2.? is stable, never a problem fron consoles, just compiled 2.4.5 with
> make -j 10 without a problem, which probably means memory and sawpping are
> OK ... yes ?

'make -j 10' or 'make -j 3' shouldn't make a difference for the memory.
There should be actually only light disk activity to keep the memory
busy. The more jobs you're starting the more you testing the disk i/o.
Anyway, last test to see whether it's the memory. Could you run this
loop for a while under 2.2: 'while make -j 2; do make clean; done'. Keep
it running for some time. If the memory is ok and 2.2 is stable, it
should keep on going.
Otherwise we need to localize what's going wrong, the best would be to
start with an absolute minimum system, that means a 2.4.5 kernel with
just the basic stuff compiled in and preferably also remove any unneeded
hardware and run the compile test. If that doesn't work, send me the
kernel + config + exact boot options and I'll try it on my machine. If
it works, add some hardware, activate the driver and rerun the tests.
It's really important to localize the problem as much as possible, if
it's somewhere in the base hardware, I can try to run the same test
here. If it's a driver problem, I can check the driver, but without
testing it myself I can only do some educated guess where the exact
problem is.

bye, Roman