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edavis
PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:43 pm 
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Using 2.6.18-8 Xen kernel (latest 2.6), the latest coreutils (6.12-1) package is broken. 'touch' no longer works because a syscall is missing from that kernel. The syscall is 'utimensat' which was introduced around 2.6.22. Here is a thread with more details:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=50750

It's my understanding that any of the 2.6.2x kernels are not ready for Xen and their use is discouraged/risky. Is that still true?
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2.6.26 needs wider testing before I'm going to make Latest point to it, but so far it's proved itself to be just as stable as 2.6.18, if not more. I suggest giving it a shot :)

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caker wrote:
2.6.26 needs wider testing before I'm going to make Latest point to it, but so far it's proved itself to be just as stable as 2.6.18, if not more. I suggest giving it a shot :)

-Chris


Will do! Thanks.
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edavis, let me know how it goes for you. I'm also running Arch, but a switch to any kernel newer than 2.6.18 causes a constant ~3% CPU usage, whereas my Linode is normally idle most of the time.
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The ~3% CPU thing is a side effect of pv_ops. It's totally cosmetic.

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caker wrote:
The ~3% CPU thing is a side effect of pv_ops. It's totally cosmetic.

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OK, great, thanks.
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I rebooted with the new kernel yesterday and all is well so far.
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