Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 00:32:36 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: home@jukkis.net Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? Message-ID: <20021117002942.R23359-100000@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021117052604.home@jukkis.net>
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On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 home@jukkis.net wrote: > > On 17-Nov-2002 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > But, back to my question "What happens when RELENG_4_7 crashes?" ... in > > the past, before I did anything else, I'd upgrade to -STABLE, figuring it > > might be something that someone else caught and was fixed ... but, looking > > at the above changes in RELENG_4_7, it seems that reporting the crash is > > more or less useless ... if its already fixed in -STABLE, is someone going > > to MFC it down to RELENG_4_7? > > > > Up until this weekend, I had two heavily used/loaded servers pounding on > > -STABLE ... if one crashed, I had netdump in place to dump core to the > > other server, so that I had a crashdump ... and I'd report the results I > > could figure out, in hopes that *someone* would look at it and get it > > fixed, or ask me for more information on the bug ... basically, I'd risk a > > crash in the hopes of solidifying the OS for the next release, but I kind > > of hope(d) that -STABLE would at least run for more then a day or two :( > > > > Isn't that the point? You run -STABLE to ensure that it is and will > become -STABLE. If it's not, you will let everyone know that. How long > have you been running stable, and how many times have you had to tell > that it's crashing? Since '94 ... and, until recently, not often ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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