On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 09:55:53AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > Dave, Kyle, Dann, > > What's the most stable configuration we can create for the buildds, > even if it means crippling them with UP kernels?
Sorry Carlos - was on vacation & not good about keeping up w/ e-mail. We have been running with UP kernels for quite some time, and they haven't proven to be any more stable. Most recently I've upgraded peri/penalosa to 2.6.31-rc6-based kernels since they were inclusive of the various changes I was pointed to on this list (thanks John/Helge). peri has been surprisingly stable - uptime of 2 weeks so far, and it seems to be under pretty steady build load. penalosa is a different story - it has been very unstable with uptimes of several hours at most. The hardware/kernel packages are identical to that of peri (afaict), so I'm not sure why. The failure mode results in infinite panics being printed to the console - but every time I've seen it I haven't had enough console history to see the beginning of this crash. I am now logging the console to see if I can capture that. It is of course possible that penalosa is having hardware problems - but I don't know of a way to prove this conclusively. We could maybe swap disks to see if the failure follows the disks or the hardware (though that doesn't eliminate a disk problem). Note that I don't monitor the build output, so I don't know if we're still seeing the same level of random segfaults in userland. LaMont? -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
