From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 3 05:49:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 479C77AA for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2012 05:49:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from FreeBSD@shaneware.biz) Received: from ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net [IPv6:2001:44b8:8060:ff02:300:1:6:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC1A8FC08 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2012 05:49:02 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AlEJAF2ulFDLevdH/2dsb2JhbABEv2SCQgOCD4IeAQEFOEEQCw4KCRMDDwkDAgECAUUGDQEHAQGIBbwKjAEbDEmFTAOmP4MCgUoe Received: from ppp247-71.static.internode.on.net (HELO leader.local) ([203.122.247.71]) by ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 03 Nov 2012 16:19:00 +1030 Message-ID: <5094AE70.1030403@ShaneWare.Biz> Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 16:11:04 +1030 From: Shane Ambler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121030 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Hardie Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1 stability/robustness? References: <201211020214.UAA29489@lariat.net> <040B042A-EDD1-4639-BD21-CCB97A410C21@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <040B042A-EDD1-4639-BD21-CCB97A410C21@lafn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Brett Glass , stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 05:49:03 -0000 On 02/11/2012 15:57, Doug Hardie wrote: > > On 1 November 2012, at 19:14, Brett Glass wrote: > >> I need to build up a few servers and routers, and am wondering how >> FreeBSD 9.1 is shaping up. Will it be likely to be more stable and >> robust than 9.0-RELEASE? > > It appears to be for me. I had problems with 9.0 not reading CDs and > rebooting with no error messages frequently. I have upgraded to > 9.1-RC2 and it now reads CDs just fine, and has not rebooted. > However, the uptimes with 9.0 ranged from about 2 hours to 30 days. > I have only had 9.1-RC2 running for a couple weeks so have not > declared victory yet. I has been running for more than most of the > uptimes already. > Personally I have had little issue with 9.0. I started with installing PC-BSD-9.0RC3 then moved to FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Shortly after I installed a world built with clang which found an issue with libthr that is fixed in 9.1 Until yesterday my only restarts have been power failure or updating kernel and/or kmods - I seem to have trouble manually unloading the nvidia kmod so end up restarting. I am fairly certain the restart I had yesterday is related to cuse4bsd-kmod which I have disabled for now to try and prove that. While I can load and use the current version the previous one is the only one I have been able to have activated during startup.