From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 10 00:29:36 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 998AF25C for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:29:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E76DFA5 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:29:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from irix.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.39] helo=ncs.bris.ac.uk) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1U4KnS-0005DF-Sr; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:29:35 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncs.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1U4KnS-0005HE-IR; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:29:30 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.6/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r1A0TUSM046802; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:29:30 GMT (envelope-from mexas@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.6/8.14.6/Submit) id r1A0TT2r046801; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:29:29 GMT (envelope-from mexas) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:29:29 GMT From: Anton Shterenlikht Message-Id: <201302100029.r1A0TT2r046801@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu Subject: Re: 7+ days of dogfood In-Reply-To: <20130210000723.GA73630@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> X-Spam-Score: -1.2 X-Spam-Level: - X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: mexas@bristol.ac.uk List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:29:36 -0000 Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 16:07:23 -0800 From: Steve Kargl To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: 7+ days of dogfood In a long thread started by Peter Wemm on developers@, he described the move/upgrade of the FreeBSD.org cluster to using FreeBSD-10. A part of his description included the need to test top-of-tree under actual real-world conditions. In his words, FreeBSD should "eat its own dogfood." The new installation on FreeBSD.org, of course, would test FreeBSD-10 under (heavy) server load. So, I decided to test FreeBSD-10 under a user desktop condition. In so doing, I upgraded the circa August 2012 FreeBSD-current that ran on my Dell Latitude D530 (which ran rock-solid) to top-of-tree. This included re-installing all ports under the pkgng paradigm. I can only describe this experience as slowly shoving an icepick into my ear channel. *skip the details* My experience is more positive. I've r246552 on a Lenovo T61p amd64 laptop. X works fine with Nvidia card with nvidia-driver-304.64: x11/nvidia-driver and with hald and dbus. firefox-18.0.2,1: www/firefox works fine (so far). I haven't added flash yet. sound seems fine, at least in alienblaster-1.1.0_5: games/alienblaster wireless works ok (I'm not sure, but it seems to show some problems under load. I need to investigate this further) with device iwn # Intel 4965/1000/5000/6000 wireless NICs. device iwn4965fw All this with # cat /etc/make.conf SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS+= -L/usr/local/lib SENDMAIL_LDADD+= -lsasl2 WITH_PKGNG=yes PERL_VERSION=5.16.2 # Anton