Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 23:53:48 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Barney Wolff <barney@tp.databus.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? Message-ID: <20021117235303.L23359-100000@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20021118034432.GA82792@tp.databus.com>
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On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Barney Wolff wrote: > Er, other than send-pr? Is the complaint that things don't get fixed > quickly enough? Compared to what other real-world OS? > > I may be misremembering, but as I recall one of the symptoms was a > reboot with no panic. I don't mean to be insulting, but are you quite > sure that power is not involved? I see things like that when my > UPS battery has gone bad, and any slight dip in line voltage causes > the UPS to switch but the battery gives nothing. And I can't count > the number of times I've had power hits in a telco server room. I > apologize in advance if I've confused your problem with somebody else's. You must be ... all of my crashes have been able to dump core to one of the other servers for analysis ... > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:29:05PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > You have missed everything I've written, haven't you? The server(s) > > crashing does not bother me ... IMHO, if I can cause it to crash, and > > someone can fix it, someone else won't be affected ... > > > > What I *want* is some useful mechanism for getting such bugs addressed so > > that they don't repeat ... > > -- > Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf > I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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