On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 21:04 +0800, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 05:02:13PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 22:50 +0200, Claus Herwig wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > as I've to compile a new kernel for one of my vserver
> boxes, it's
> > > time to come back to this much loved question:
> > >
> > > Which (vanilla) kernel and which vserver patch version
> should I use
> > > for a production system?
> > >
> > > I know this question isn't entirely new, but even after
> scanning
> > > through the last months of mailing list posts I'm missing
> a simple
> > > answer ;-)
> > >
> > > The website states 2.6.22.19 + vs2.2.0.7, which is, well,
> ancient
> > > (1.5 years old i.E.)
> > >
> > > A second look at the website says 2.6.30.1 +
> vs2.3.0.36.14, which is
> > > experimental, what (at least for me) means that I
> shouldn't use it
> > > on a production system.
> > >
> > > Then I read in some other post, that it is of course
> useable in
> > > production - which just leads to another question: Why is
> it called
> > > experimental?
>
>
> > Funny, I was looking at this today as I need to rebuild one
> of our
> > vserver hosts. We've been using kernel 2.6.28 and 29.
> We've had a few
> > issues - a nasty kernel bug in both that occasionally
> requires a cold
> > boot (!) and constant segfaults in OSSEC. We've needed to
> be on those
> > kernels because of even worse problems with iSCSI in older
> kernels and
> > we've learned to avoid the hang problem. It still scares
> the living
> > daylights out of me and we are eagerly awaiting 2.6.30 which
> apparently
> > fixes this bug. However, when I mouse over the link to
> 2.6.30.1 +
> > vs2.3.0.36.14, it still says pre3 so I am assuming it is not
> yet ready
> > for even daring production. Is that true? Thanks - John
>
>
> the person supposed to update (i.e. volunteered to maintain
> the
> list on the wiki) obviously didn't do so for some time now,
> and therefore it would be good to read the 'red note' above
> the
> experimental matrix and check out:
>
> http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Experimental/
>
> that's great - except that this is merely a list of files without that
> info which says while patch is "development", vs "experimental"?
> Obviously, it's great to have access here (damn the outdated list!!!),
> but I think we probably need more help here...
>
> -jf
>
I think Herbert and Daniel are focused on code (as they should be).
There was a movement afoot a few months ago to help out by updating the
web site and documentation. We're up to our eyeballs with a startup but
there were a number of other folks willing to step up to the plate.
Whatever became of all that? I'm sure Herbert and Daniel (hope I got the
names right) can really use the help. This is a great product that we'd
like to see flourish - John
-- John A. Sullivan III Open Source Development Corporation +1 207-985-7880 jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com http://www.spiritualoutreach.com Making Christianity intelligible to secular societyReceived on Tue Aug 11 14:28:37 2009