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Date:      Thu, 20 Feb 1997 15:20:09 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net>
Cc:        dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.2 Stability (was Re: another victim..)
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.95.970220151717.12974A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <199702200134.TAA09095@solaria.sol.net>

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On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Joe Greco wrote:

> > I've been running 2.2 since it was "current" with apache for 5 months and
> > it's *never* fallen over.  The longest uptime was around 65 days, but that
> > was because it was taken down for kernel updates. 
> > 
> > The web serving load isn't very high though, httpd is generating about
> > 30MB of logs every month. 
> 
> I don't think I've seen any instances of 2.2 truly falling over, either,
> although there are times where it seems to "pause" during heavy VM activity
> that doesn't happen with 2.1.X.  It's been hard to quantify precisely.
> 
> I am not trying to say that 2.2 is bad, I'm just saying that its track
> record (no matter how good) is not very long.

I didn't think you were actually, I was just adding a data point.

Your advice is sound, I live on the edge a little bit picking out stable
builds and installing them in production sites that handle moderate loads.

Regards,


Mike




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