Stable or Unstable Install

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uxbod · Post by **uxbod** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:51 am

Hi All,

I have been running with ~amd64 for sometime now, but very recently have started to encounter a lot of hard lockups. Now, my question is how well has the stable branch matured as I am thinking about backing up, wiping the disks and reinstalling with just amd64.

All comments greatfully appreciated.

electrofreak · Post by **electrofreak** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:17 pm

My system is amd64, but I run a lot of ~amd64 packages.

I don't have too many problems, nothing I would blame on the fact that it's a 64-bit installation.

Edit: Just noticed your sig... that is one nice system.

Beefrum · Post by **Beefrum** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:29 pm

Stable

<She asks.>

Based on 2006.0 cd and toolchain. Maybe. Who knows. If it runs on my system it's stable.

Simply try
and keep wondering
what combinations would
give someone else problems
so they would start calling it unstable.

dweigert · Post by **dweigert** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 7:51 pm

Hard lockups are *Usually* a sign of over aggressive fCFLAGS, or an impending hardware problem... I've been running unstable on my dual opteron box for *Years* and haven't had any lockups. My CFLAGS are fairly conservative.

Dan

Avuton Olrich · Post by **Avuton Olrich** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 8:59 pm

Hard lockups are *Usually* a sign of over aggressive fCFLAGS, or an impending hardware problem... I've been running unstable on my dual opteron box for *Years* and haven't had any lockups. My CFLAGS are fairly conservative.

Seems rather FUDdish to me; hard lockups cannot be caused by agressive CFLAGS, unless the CFLAGS are somehow forced on the kernel or loaded kernel module. Programs where it would matter (glibc, binutils, etc...) the CFLAGS are filtered. Other symptoms are overheating CPU, MCEs, etc... but using crappy CFLAGS will pretty much net you, worst case, with a broken compile or broken program.

uxbod · Post by **uxbod** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:03 am

I shall recompiling the whole system then, and see what happens. Thanks.

Penguin of Wonder · Post by **Penguin of Wonder** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:32 am

I run a stable only system, I never have lock up problems. I would try it and see what happens.