On Thursday 14 April 2005 23:59, Anthony Brock wrote: > >>> Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/14/05 02:16PM >>> > > > >On Tuesday 12 April 2005 19:42, Anthony Brock wrote: > >> The most advanced, stable and mature UML kernel (IMHO) is a 2.6.10 (or > >> newer) host kernel with v7 or newer of the SKAS patch. This host should > >> be able to run > >> almost any functional UML host. You can download the SKAS patch from:
> >I would correct that, 2.6.11 is better. The 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 kernels > > trigger a "hang at exit" and "thousands of threads left alive" problem > > with some older UML. This is workarounded in current UMLs, but not in > > older ones. Here I'm speaking of *host* kernels, yes. > >For the "real" host, however, even a recent 2.4 kernel with a SKAS patch > > is perfectly stable. What I would avoid is to run a 2.4 UML (i.e.*guest*) > > kernel, because a 2.6 kernel is better. > > Okay, now I'm a little confused. Are you saying that 2.6.11 is better than > 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 as a HOST kernel, or as a GUEST kernel? > I would agree that > 2.6.11 is better as a guest kernel. Confirmed. > However, I'm not aware of any stability > issues with 2.6.10 that were resolved in the 2.6.11 host kernel. Run on 2.6.10 any 2.4 guest kernel, or even vanilla 2.6.9, and you'll notice the famous problems... it's the ones we got on 2.6.9 host and that I describe above. And yes, they are related to the host. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
