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Date:      Sun, 16 Jul 2006 18:41:53 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SMP Performance (Was: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail ... )
Message-ID:  <20060716154153.GB2722@gothmog.pc>
In-Reply-To: <20060716113433.X1799@ganymede.hub.org>
References:  <20060714024743.BEC4B43D49@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20060716113433.X1799@ganymede.hub.org>

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On 2006-07-16 11:45, User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> wrote:
> The problem, as I see it, is that until the OS gets used in "real life
> production environments", some of the more obscure bugs don't get
> found ... on a simple production server, not doing much, I doubt
> anyone would ever see the file system deadlocks ... but, there are
> several of us that are running it in production with heavy loads that
> do ... but it takes a good load on the machine to trigger it, and I
> doubt any of the developers have that to work with, and/or can easily
> simulate the 'randomness' of a production environment ...

Well said!

Very much to the point, with reasonable, realistic arguments,
as always, Marc :)




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