[nflug] AMD64 Debian 'Etch' Stability

SilverBear silverbear1 at sblinux.org
Fri May 23 11:57:49 EDT 2008


Good morning, Robert.

I just changed my email address from the old one -- I was *getting* messages from the list, but unable to post since the list change a couple months ago. We'll see if it works now.

I can't confirm or deny from experience what was said about 64-bit Etch.  In the last month, however, there have been mutterings about  a "Possible Xserver problem in Etch updates."

see these Forum threads:
http://mepislovers.org/forums/showthread.php?p=119327#post119327
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/24/307

Here's the bug tracking list of hits for "xserver" sorted by descending date of report.
http://merkel.debian.org/~don/cgi/search.cgi?phrase=xserver+&search=search&skip=0&order_field=date&order_operator=NUMD&max_results=10

I reported a desktop system lockup in the first thread, after doing some updates to Mepis 7.0, which is based on Etch. That was a 32-bit installation, though.  I've been mostly in  ArchLinux for the last couple weeks, so it isn't a big issue for me personally. But for a server!

That's _if_ Etch is really having the Xserver problems some people think. With Mepis it's hard to tell. It could be "all Etch's fault." But the Mepis dev is on hiatus doing an outside consulting contract, so it could be something in Mepis that is choking on the Etch update. Hard to say without Warren's being available to investigate.  That doesn't explain the other reports, though.

If you need more input I can ask your question directly on a few of the Linux forums I frequent.

John Boice
AKA "SilverBear"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: robertwolfe at localnet.com
> Sent: Fri, 23 May 2008 08:26:36 -0400
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: [nflug] AMD64 Debian 'Etch' Stability
> 
> Good morning all!
> 
> I was wondering what some folks' thoughts were on the stability of the
> AMD64 version of Debian Etch are?  I have been wanting to push the use of
> the 64-bit version on our higher-end servers here at work (have a bunch
> of new AMD64-based servers that have dual quad-core Xeons in them with
> 16GB of RAM that act as our VMWare Server servers).  I know of at least
> one person that claims that the 64-bit version of Debian is not stable
> enough to run as a server OS.
> 
> Could someone confirm or not whether this is true?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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> Robert Wolfe <robertwolfe at localnet.com>
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