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eltech
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 Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:50 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Kernel Upgrade.. Leaving me a bit unstable ... |
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Hello .. sinfollowing the Gentoo Kernel Migration guide I have been left with a pretty unstable Gentoo ..
Seems after a fresh reboot everything works just find. Then after a while.. might be a few hours, things start failing and just plain not working..
Unable to log in, ssh seems to die. Also unable to log in locally it just hangs.
Spamassassin, stops filtering ..
Apache stops presenting pages but shows in some what of a 'still alive' state ..
metalog only creates these strange log-date-time files, no more 'current' file used ..
When using top i see something i dont recall seeing before. See the image below for more details ..
http://img184.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pcnstopreadzq9.png
What are those negative numbers? is that normal?
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darkmason
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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Don't know the reason for instability but those numbers are the niceness(?) of each process. Essentially a number between -19 and 19 that gives the process a priority. -19 being of a higher priority than 19.
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eltech
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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| darkmason wrote: | Don't know the reason for instability but those numbers are the niceness(?) of each process. Essentially a number between -19 and 19 that gives the process a priority. -19 being of a higher priority than 19.
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ok .. darkmason, i will review nice now... thanks.. |
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eltech
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:45 am Post subject: |
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| Seems after re-emerging a few packages 'some' things are working fairly better .. |
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i92guboj
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It is a strange issue, sometimes, there can be problems when you recompile a kernel with a different gcc version than the one you used to compile certain external modules (they might even not load at all) but it is strange to have problems with other programs just cause you compiled and installed a new kernel. Strange things can happen also if you did the "make" and "make modules" with different versions of gcc, though, if you were seeking the guide, I do not believe that is the case.
Out of curiosity, which kernel did you install? Name and version, please. Other than that, the niceness for that processes is not strange, and it has nothing to do with unstability. It is just fine.
BTW, slight correction to the post from @darkmason: niceness can go from 19 (lowest priority) to -20 (the highest). Not that it is important, though  |
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eltech
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| 6thpink wrote: | It is a strange issue, sometimes, there can be problems when you recompile a kernel with a different gcc version than the one you used to compile certain external modules (they might even not load at all) but it is strange to have problems with other programs just cause you compiled and installed a new kernel. Strange things can happen also if you did the "make" and "make modules" with different versions of gcc, though, if you were seeking the guide, I do not believe that is the case.
Out of curiosity, which kernel did you install? Name and version, please. Other than that, the niceness for that processes is not strange, and it has nothing to do with unstability. It is just fine.
BTW, slight correction to the post from @darkmason: niceness can go from 19 (lowest priority) to -20 (the highest). Not that it is important, though |
6thpink,
Thanks for the insight .. I think a new gcc might have been available in between this whole upgrade as it took me a few days to complete ..
so ill remerge and double check configs and see where this takes me.. as of now .. services seem a bit more stable, but my metalog still is dead as a doornail ..
my version of gentoo-sources is gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r8
Dont ask me why I wnet with gentoo-sources opposed to vanilla-sources which I have been using for about 3 years now.. we'll see how this goes.. for now.. lets just call it semi-solved?
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