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  7.x Kernel We have reverted from 7.2.6 kernel back to 6.18.52 kernels for friendica.eskimo.com and our other federated sites. The reason we have done so is the scheduler in 7.x has disabled the ability to specify a non-preemptive kernel, but on an 18-core 36-thread very busy machine, this results in a lot of trash, wasted CPU and memory cycles and eventually some of the kernel processes don't get enough CPU, the whole machine backs up and does, where it remains sane under 6.18.x kerne...

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  @Dany@hsnl.social For all it's attacks it helped me recover from a rather nasty side effect of the 6.19-rc3 kernel. They change the structure of md raid device superblocks such that existing mdadm 1.43 supplied with Ubuntu 24.04 no longer can parse it and they recommend mdadm 1.45 but it also does not work. Copilot assisted me in rebuilding the metadata so I could get back to what my system mdadm could work with. Since all my file systems with the exception of EFI are raided, this was ess...