[plug] crashing server

[Craig Ringer]

Rob Dunne wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> Cameron Patrick writes:
>  > James Devenish wrote:
>  > 
>  > > But, this still leaves the question...how come the machine dies when
>  > > &status is invalid?
>  > 
>  > A guess: 'cos Linux threading is sucky, and in particular the new
>  > threading system (NPTL) used in 2.6 is new and probably less tested
>  > than it could be.
>  > 
> 
> its a 2.4 kernel, and its RH enterprise 3.

Red Hat backports a lot of 2.6 code, and introduces quite a few of their 
own patches into their kernels too. They've been shipping NTPL since Red 
Hat 9, possibly Red Hat 8, in their default kernels.

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Craig Ringer