Ignoramus30064
2010-07-09 19:23:54 UTC
Due to having some unusual machines at work (with 12 cores), I need to
run a custom kernel instead of Ubuntu's stock kernel.
What I do is download a kernel, bunzip it, make defconfig, change
config, and run a few commands like make and make install etc.
I think that I have the process of installing it fully under control
and documented, so that I could do it on all those machines with just
a script.
What I want to ask is, what is a relatively recent kernel that is
known for being super robust and reliable and that "never has
problems".
This is in a context of a corporate application server that uses disk
and network and pretty much nothing else (a simplification). In other
words, I do NOT care about ndiswrapper, sound card drivers, NVidia and
things like that.
This server does NOT run X.
All I do care about is that the kernel runs, never crashes or leaks
memory etc. I know that all stable kernels are "pretty good", but I
want to pick a winner, so to speak. The most damn robust reliable
kernel out there that is within 2-3 recent releases.
Any suggestions?
My default route (if I could not ask here) would be to pick a kernel
that the most RHEL is using.
i
run a custom kernel instead of Ubuntu's stock kernel.
What I do is download a kernel, bunzip it, make defconfig, change
config, and run a few commands like make and make install etc.
I think that I have the process of installing it fully under control
and documented, so that I could do it on all those machines with just
a script.
What I want to ask is, what is a relatively recent kernel that is
known for being super robust and reliable and that "never has
problems".
This is in a context of a corporate application server that uses disk
and network and pretty much nothing else (a simplification). In other
words, I do NOT care about ndiswrapper, sound card drivers, NVidia and
things like that.
This server does NOT run X.
All I do care about is that the kernel runs, never crashes or leaks
memory etc. I know that all stable kernels are "pretty good", but I
want to pick a winner, so to speak. The most damn robust reliable
kernel out there that is within 2-3 recent releases.
Any suggestions?
My default route (if I could not ask here) would be to pick a kernel
that the most RHEL is using.
i