Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 13:03:44 -0700 From: Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com> To: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> Subject: Re: Long uptime 5.2.1 server Message-ID: <20050618200344.GX11612@silverwraith.com> In-Reply-To: <1116331180.20050618143520@andric.com> References: <EF65ED87-CDBF-40D3-8C17-B25F95F35459@dragondata.com> <1116331180.20050618143520@andric.com>
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On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 02:35:20PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote: > > We've got a FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 server that's been up for 460 > > days now, with pretty heavy use the whole time (70GB+ per day http > > traffic, 140 hits/sec, etc). > > Funny that some people insist on complaining about 5.x instability. :P There were always two things I would recommend waiting for before moving to 5.x: 1. Performance. I remember reading the after 5.0's release, much debugging code was still in the OS and kernel which would reduce performance. 2. Stability. After 5.0 came out, most production environments were advised not to upgrade or put 5.x out, as we know there were probably many obscure bugs still present and trying to be worked out. (2) was put to rest when -STABLE was branched, but I never heard that (1) was dealt with. I assume it was but it would be nice to be sure :-) -- Avleen Vig Systems Administrator Personal: www.silverwraith.com Screams are expressions of pure joy & fulfillment when extracted in the proper manner.
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