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 15:02:54 -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: 42dae8ce-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 because 9fans not only agree to disagree, they also disagree to agree :) On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Anton wrote: > Yep, with 3.1 9vx runs fine for an hour already. However, I want to > try installing Plan 9 natively. Tomorrow. Btw, why there are 9atom and > 9front? > I mean, why they aren't joined together? What the difference between them= ? > 2011/11/22 Skip Tavakkolian >> >> i'll modify what i said to "... suspect the host os first". =A0it'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 >> wrote: >> > 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_6= 4, >> >> 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= are >> > likely >> > in any host os. =A0the oses are better tested than 9vx, so given no ot= her >> > information >> > i would conclude the opposite; 9vx is more likely at fault. =A0and >> > regardless, we >> > have little chance of fixing the os. >> > >> > - erik >> > >> > >> > >