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Date:      Sat, 2 Oct 2004 14:00:24 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Sascha Schumann <sascha@schumann.cx>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Conclusion of thread "Deadlocks with recent SMP current"?
Message-ID:  <20041002210024.GA55807@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0410022223070.1355@localhost>
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On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:49:52PM +0200, Sascha Schumann wrote:
> >Yes, this is believed to have been resolved in 5.3.
>=20
>     Good to hear.
>=20
> >So, you're running 5.2 on those systems, which was documented as a
> >development release and not recommended for use on production systems
>=20
>     No, *I* am not running FreeBSD 5 anywhere on productive
>     systems.  Unfortunaly, the ISP recommended it to this
>     particular owner of two systems where I am doing some
>     voluntary work in my spare time.
>=20
>     One of the servers ran 5.1 with an uptime of >200 days.
>     There were no indications that 5.2 contained such vast
>     regressions in comparison to 5.1.  Even today, the 5.2.1
>     errata page does not say anything about SMP issues.

Er, well, that doesn't mean anything other than no-one updated the
errata page.

Kris
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