From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4ECA333A.2010600@gmail.com> <4ECA89D4.9080803@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:59:37 -0800 Message-ID: From: Skip Tavakkolian To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx instability Topicbox-Message-UUID: 42c04abe-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i'll modify what i said to "... suspect the host os first". it's been my experience that every autoupdate on Ubuntu and Windows brings in its share of new bugs (hopefully less than the number of bugs it fixes) On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:32 PM, erik quanstrom wr= ote: > On Mon Nov 21 15:20:58 EST 2011, skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com wrote: >> i run 9vx occasionally. =A0a while back i built 9vx from ron's >> repository. =A0i was having problems with it under Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64, >> where sometimes both cores were pegged at 100%; it was a problem with >> linux (judging by ubuntu mailing lists). without changing 9vx, things >> got stable after 10.10 (currently on 11.10). so, when in doubt, >> suspect the host os. > > !? =A0the fact that one bug was found in linux doesn't imply that bugs ar= e likely > in any host os. =A0the oses are better tested than 9vx, so given no other= information > i would conclude the opposite; 9vx is more likely at fault. =A0and regard= less, we > have little chance of fixing the os. > > - erik > >