Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 23:45:04 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bringing stuff into 2.1? Message-ID: <199512120645.XAA08389@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <18032.818750165@time.cdrom.com> References: <199512120631.XAA08347@rocky.sri.MT.net> <18032.818750165@time.cdrom.com>
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> > All right. What kind of time-frame are we looking at here? The reason > > I'm asking is I want to shake out some of the more 'critical' portions > > of the merge (any of the kernel mods I'd like someone else to look over > > before they go in) and I don't want to push things to the wire. Is a > > 'drop-dead' date of February a workable goal, so it leaves us all of > > February for a Real(tm) beta-test cycle? > > I'd like to start wrapping things up in February. I didn't really > anticipate a prolonged BETA test cycle since that would sort of imply > that we screwed up and brought in *too* many changes. But wouldn't it be nice to have a Real(tm) beta-test cycle for once? It appears that we still have problems with stability in 2.1, given the amount of reboots we're seeing, and I'd like to see those resolved. I just started seeing reboots on my 2.1 box which ran the exact same workload under 2.0R with uptimes of 60 and 90 days, and I can't get over a week with it in -stable. I just enabled dumps, so hopefully I can provide more information. > This is supposed to be a fairly simple `re-roll the release' cycle, > and if it isn't then we need to consider just what we did to make that > not happen (and kill someone for it :-). While I think 2.1 is a *great* release, I think there is a bogon lurking in the kernel somewhere biting us, and I'd like to see it tracked down and violently killed. (Whoops, the redneck in me is showing there...) Nate
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