Messages in this thread | | | From | "Sean Hunter" <> | Date | Thu, 9 Sep 1999 07:28:02 +0100 | Subject | Its official! Alpha linux rocks! |
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Pardon my gushing tone, but I've just been running the torture test from hell for eight hours (so far) on my alpha seeing with no errors. Load avg is constantly between 30 and 85, peaking at 100+ from time to time.
Here's what I did: continues kernel compiles of the 2.2.12 and 2.3.17 kernels in parallell using make -j 8 MAKE="make -j 8", while doing a similar compile of mozilla on my raid array at the same time
This machine does routing for me, so all the time this has been on (OK, I stopped it after eight hours while leaving the compiles running), I've been pinging machines that it has to route to. While the time is slowed a little by the intense load, it didn't lose a single packet in all those eight hours.
Even under these loads, I am still able to log in, and interactive performance is not too shoddy (beats the old Slowaris development server I used to have to work on when its load was 4!)
This is all running under 2.2.12 kernel. This improvement in stability is a really remarkable achievement when you consider that all the kernels between 2.2.5 and 2.2.12 have given me loads of random segfaults etc.
Thanks to Alan Cox and rth for all their good work on this kernel.
Sean
[sean@diego sean]$ procinfo Linux 2.2.12 (root@diego.uncarved.co.uk) (gcc egcs-2.91.66) #1 [diego]
Memory: Total Used Free Shared Buffers Cached Mem: 385560 118192 267368 70424 7880 26792 Swap: 266144 37720 228424
Bootup: Wed Sep 8 23:35:18 1999 Load average: 97.13 62.76 57.85 6/168 31681 ^^^^^
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