Re: random system crashes

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, William R Thomas wrote:

*snip*

> I have never gotten a response from the list with any assistance, and
> it seems like the general attitude on here is, "Why don't you write a
> patch and maybe it will get added in."  The primary developer hasn't
> said anything on the list that I have noticed in many months.  No
> redhat employee I have seen has said anything on the list since he
> last spoke up.

What did happen to Ingo?  He was remarkably helpful and active on the
lists right up to his last post on the 2nd of May - and then seems to have
disappeared off the surface of the planet.  Does anyone know if he's
okay?

And the obvious corollary: is TUX development now completely dead?  Will a
patch for 2.4.19 ever appear (unless some new 3rd party with appropriate
kernel hacking guru qualifications rolls up their sleeves and wades in)?
Is there even work being done on integrating TUX into the 2.5 kernel?

For what it's worth, I also suffer from the notorious "intermittently
completely hanging yet perhaps responding to ping on one or more
interfaces" problem, which sadly renders tux useless for me.  It's amazing
whilst it runs, but having to powercycle a brand new production server
every 4 days or so is not good for the soul.

Dell PowerEdge 1650, Dual PIII 1.2GHz, 4Gb RAM, reiserfs on 3*18Gb RAID-5
SCSI disks, tux-2.2.7, tux2-full-2.4.18-final-A3 patch, dual Intel gigabit
NICs.

M.