Re: Informix running on Linux

Posted in 1997

Topics: Performance & Tuning, Platform-Specific Issues

Todd Graham Lewis — Sun, 18 May 1997 18:14:39 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

On Sat, 17 May 1997, David Williams wrote: > Is anyone trying to port iBCS to the version 2.1 kernels? > > I am trying but not getting very far... My understanding is that it and a lot of other things are just plain broken right now as they try to tune the SMP stuff. Linus is on a big kick to get SMP performance to where he thinks it can be (which, of course, is far beyond anyone else's numbers.) I'd guess it will be working again in a few months. For those unfamiliar with the numbering scheme for Linux kernels, 2.1 is a development kernel (you can tell because 1 is an odd number: 2.0 = stable, 1.3 = development, 1.2 = stable, etc.) It's not intended for people to run in the course of everyday usage, so things break in it all the time. Eventually they put them back together again. -- Todd Graham Lewis Linux! Core Engineering MindSpring Enterprises tlewis@mindspring.net (800) 719 4664, x2804