klogd and GPF's (reboots)

[Anthony J. Gabrielson]

Hello,
	I'm not sure if your running SMP, but 2.4 is so much faster than 
2.2 if your running SMP.

Anthony

On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Derek Martin wrote:

> Today, linuxguy at ici.net gleaned this insight:
> 
> > This is RH 6.1 with a custom compiled SMP-enabled 2.2.12 kernel.
> > I'm guessing it's got something to do with the system.map and my custom
> > kernel.  I'm also wondering if I've fixed the problem at all.  Blah!
> 
> THROW AWAY YOUR 2.2.12 KERNEL!  
> 
> *ALL* 2.2 kernel versions prior to 2.2.17 have a security problem, and
> possibly one or more of the following: memory leaks, performance problems,
> driver bugs.
> 
> Download the 2.2.17 kernel today!  It might even fix your problem.  But if
> you've never updated your syslog package, you should do that too, because
> there are bugs in the versions of syslogd and klogd that ship with RH 6.1
> IIRC.
> 
> I can not over-emphasize the importance of keeping your system up to date,
> ESPECIALLY if it is connected to the Internet.
> 
> Note, you could also upgrade to 2.2.18 or 2.4.X; but I've heard from
> various people that 2.2.18 may have some problems (I think I heard roumors
> of FS corruption, and maybe one or two other problems, but I'm really not
> sure), and you may or may not feel comfortable or confident moving to
> 2.4.X yet...
> 
> 
> -- 
> Derek Martin
> ddm at pizzashack.org
> 
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