Re: Kernel 2.4.5-pre3

[Ken T. <ke...@we...>]

On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> I'm suffering from the same problem w.r.t. writing corrupted data to my DDS-1
> under 2.4.x: so far ik _looks_ like it doesn't happen under 2.2.17, but I can't
> prove it due to the nature of statistics. It's much easier to prove a problem
> is there (you need only one `true' report), then proving the problem is not
> there (you need infinite `false' reports). In the mean time I found one problem
> under 2.2.19 too, so either it got introduced between 2.2.17 and 2.2.19, or it
> does happen under 2.2.17 too.

I know what you're saying, Carl Popper and philosophy of science etc,
repeated observations of sunrise every morning is no proof that it will
rise tomorrow morning.

So you're saying that running the suggested make loop under 2.2.10
overnight is not worth doing because it can't *prove* the absence of the
problem ?

             2.2.10 make -j 10        2.4.5 make -j 10 

success           10                       0

fail               0                      10

comes pretty close to convicing me, where would you put your money ?

I just want 2.4.5 to work, I'll do the overnight test - if the sun comes
up tomorrow ;) 

Something else occured to me, is it possible that one of the daemons or
some chron job splats something ?

Ken.