[ltp] Linux not stable

[IBM ThinkPad]

On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, surferjeff@excite.com wrote:

> I have been experiencing a lot of instability using Linux.  I am trying to use Linux to specifically get away from MS's unstable products.
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> For example, when I shutdown machine, I think my machine actually completes the shutdown process only about 30% of the time.  Usually it hangs on PCMCIA (even though there are no PCMCIA cards installed) or it hangs on the stopping logging part.
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> Also, yesterday, I was browsing the internet (actually, MSDN) and the system just totally hosed itself.  It started reading and writing to the hard disk like crazy, and the whole system slowed to a crawl.  I did a "shutdown now", and it never really made it into the shutdown process.
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> Why am I experiencing all these problems?  Is anyone else experiencing them?  I'm using Mandrake Linux 8.1, which is a little old, but I don't remember Linux being famously unstable a year ago.
> Linux Version 2.4.8-26mdk, Compiled #1 Sun Sep 23 17:06:39 CEST 2001

The early 2.4.x kernels had problems with memory management. Try to
upgrade your Linux kernel to some new kernel (2.4.19) and try again.

Best regards,

 Stephan