Most stable kernel?

[Daemonax]

Anyone out there know which linux kernel is the most stable? I'm currently using 2.6.7 but have been thinking about going back and using a 2.4 kernel, 2.6.7 has been stable most of the time, but for some reason whenever I try to make an iso image of a cd in kde my system just hardlocks, can't even move the cursor or kill X.

So what kernel is meant to be the most stable?
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[denstark]

the 2.6.x kernels are damn stable for desktop use, it may not be your kernel that is making your system hardlock... You can try a 2.4 kernel, but i think it wont make much of a difference.

I use a 2.4 kernel for my server, and 2.6.x kernels for my Desktops, never had a problem with either.

Hope that helped
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[Daemonax]

Yea thanks, I didn't think that it would have anything to do with the kernel level, hmmm it's really annoying though, just completely hardlocks, there is nothing at all that I can do.... hmm, I have one idea what it may be.
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[electrofreak]

And what is that idea??



I have an idea too. Perhapes some hardware is going bad. You should do some troubleshooting to see if something is going bad.

Hardlock?? Sounds like maybe a HD is going bad, or I've seen some glitch in apache (in 1.3.x) that starts leaking memory, killing the system when it eats it all. It happened when someone visited a user (like with http://ursite.com/~thisuserdoesntexist) and it would just start leaking memory. I forget what caused it exactly. Also, samba sometimes hardlocks the system, again, I dunno why. Or, perhaps the memory is going bad, and when it... hits its bad point, it hardlocks the system. Just some things to look at and watch closely.

[Daemonax]

Hmmmm well my friend emerged samba on my machine last night while I was at a lan as I had never set it up before as I don't network with windows machines. So it could be samba.
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[Daemonax]

Well I unemerged samba and it worked, well sort of, I could make the image (trying to make an image of ff7 from my psx disc so I could play it in epsxe) it made the image but I can't seem to play it..... well anyway atleast I've stopped my machine from hardlocking.
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[kavau]

[rfujimoto]

[Daemonax]

Awesome, thanks for the two tips, I don't have a second machine yet unfortunately, but I'm looking at getting a cheap little transmeta based laptop and putting either gentoo or lfs on it.
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