Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:01:50 +0100 From: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming Message-ID: <20051031160150.GB87483@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <43663A0A.4040608@samsco.org> References: <436116D3.908@samsco.org> <20051031151809.GA83253@stack.nl> <43663A0A.4040608@samsco.org>
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--k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:36:42AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > >Anyone having updates for my showstopper page, please, notify me... > > > >http://www.stack.nl/%7Emarcolz/FreeBSD/showstoppers.html > > The pty problem is likely a side effect of known locking problems with > ttys and ptys in general. This probably the weakest part of the kernel > right now and I don't know of a good work-around for apps that use these > extensively. That said, there doesn't seem to be much of a problem with= =20 > casual use; I use screen(1) quite a bit on my production 6.0-RC=20 > mailserver+firewall. I know it doesn't trigger too often for most users, but still, for us, once a week per server on 2 production servers we installed FreeBSD 5 and 6 on, is way too often. :-( More so because these kernel panics on SMP systems tend to utterly destroy soft-updates consistency giving fsck quite a workout and resulting in data loss... > Is the 'VM/VFS overruns' item still a problem? That was likely fixed a= =20 > couple of months ago. If not then it's definitely something that I'll > track for the 6.1 release. I'll retest that one, but it wasn't fixed yet in -CURRENT of a month ago. > The ACPI+sio problem is known. I have a motherboard with a similar=20 > problem, though a different brand than yours. I solved it by removing > the ACPI attachment from the sio code. The better solution is to allow > loader hints to override ACPI hints. I tried talking to John Baldwin > about this but didn't get much of a response. I've tried all suggestions so far, but to no avail on most servers. Too many broken ACPI implementations I fear... Too bad motherboard vendors don't take the time to push proper software in their flash. In any case, thanks for thinking along with me. :-) Marc --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDZj/uezjnobFOgrERAs47AKDDpE3d3OLSkTMdz7JVe97z3t4suwCfbVNg ayoAAlb5tyWYzlAGoxLVsKM= =CzJq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G--
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