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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 12:18:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jaye Mathisen  <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
To: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net>
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I really can't say.  Other people use FreeBSD just fine for their
newsserver, and I did too, but I would get these random fs-related
crashes.

John Dyson looked at them, and said "yep, looks like some vnode locking
problems", and patched up 3.0 (as far as I can tell).

However, the patches never made it into 2.2.2.

I was able to reproduce it on 2 different machines.

I would still use 2.2.2 and get the adaptec fixes, you should be fine,
and certainly plenty of people are using FreeBSD for newsserver just fine.

Must've just been my combo...

On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, The Classiest Man Alive wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Jaye Mathisen wrote:
> 
>  : Well, I took the plunge, and upgraded my crash-ridden 2.2.2 INN newsserver
>  : to 3.0-current as of 7/19, and it's been solid as the proverbial rock
>  : for a few days now.
> 
> Okay, see, now you've got me worried.  What crashes?  I convinced my IS
> manager to let me set up our news server with FreeBSD rather than NT.  I'm
> using 2.2.1, but I read that 2.2.2 fixes some problems with using an
> Adaptec 2940 under a heavy load, so I thought I'd upgrade to the latest
> release.  And now you tell me this?
> 
> So, from your experience, should I upgrade to 2.2.2 or should I stick it
> out with 2.2.1?  I don't think 3.0-current is much of an option for me.
> 
> K.S.
> 
>