[CentOS] Re: [Ntop-misc] PF_RING crashed the CentOS5 - BUG: soft lockup - CPU#7
Johnny Hughes
johnny at centos.org
Wed Jul 30 20:20:41 UTC 2008
Scott Silva wrote:
> It seems that you tried to patch the CentOS kernel and it didn't work. A
> patch for a newer kernel probably wouldn't apply clean, and the CentOS
> kernels coming from RHEL are heavily patched already. The last time I
> played in the kernel there were at least a hundred patches. Probably
> more. Any one of those could contribute to your new patch failing.
> I usually wouldn't recommend using a non-standard kernel on CentOS. If
> the kernel in the main repo or the plus repo doesn't suit your system,
> and you add a kernel from the main kernel.org sources, you risk
> de-stabilizing your system. An Enterprise linux like CentOS is designed
> for stability and long life and the pieces are fairly intertwined. If
> you need a custom patch or a newer kernel, I would just use a
> distribution like Gentoo or Slackware that seems to use newer parts, or
> see if someone already adds your patch to their current kernel.
For the record ... the number of patches in the latest RHEL-5 kernel == 1529
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