Subject: Re: HELP! Long ping times under Yellow Dog Linux
christopher.murtagh@wcg.mcgill.ca
Date: Sat Jan 20 2001 - 10:00:10 MST
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Gawain Reifsnyder wrote:
>I'm suspecting I may have kernel 2.2.15. How do I determine which
>kernel I currently have?
cat /proc/version
will give you the same thing.
>In the KERNEL 2.2.18 README file, I read that:
>
>To install kernel 2.2.18, run the following:
...
>
>Is it really that easy? If things don't work right, can I revert to the
>old kernel? This is a production server so I'm very apprehensive about
>breaking something I can't fix.
I felt the same way as you when I had to upgrade from 2.2.17 to 2.2.18.
It was as easy as the instructions in the readme (only 2 minutes of
downtime), and my server is taking on 100,000+ http requests per hour from
9 to 5 on weekdays.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.mcgill.ca
(The reboot didn't really help my uptime :-)
I'm still seeing the 'eth0: transmit timed out' message at really high
peak times, but I don't think it is bringing the network down (I had a
cron job that would restart the network when it detected that message). So
far so good.
Cheers,
Chris
--Christopher Murtagh Webmaster / Web Communications Group McGill University Montreal, Quebec Canada
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