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Date:      Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:41:56 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.ca>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Is 3.x stable with a small s ? ummm yes... (was Re: Let 3.x die ASAP?)
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.20000330134156.01fc5100@marble.sentex.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20000330191339.K19913@unicorn.blackhats.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003290146040.18478-100000@workhorse.iMach.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000329080220.7123A-100000@omnix.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003290146040.18478-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>

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At 07:13 PM 3/30/00 +0200, The Unicorn wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Forrest W. Christian wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Didier Derny wrote:
>> 
>> > freebsd seems running version after version and not stability...
>> 
>> > in 1999 (3.x) I was not so sure at all, no stability too many problems.
>> 
>> hmmm....
>> 
>> # uptime
>>  1:44AM  up 46 days, 22:36, 1 user, load averages: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00
>
>Not to "compare sizes", but:
>
> 7:05PM  up 101 days,  7:17, 5 users, load averages: 1.35, 1.35, 1.24

This is a fairly busy SMP PII 450 web server, a pair of LVD 10K drives,
512MB RAM... According to a quick glance at webalizer, they average 2
million hits a day on a heavily perl generated web site.

 1:27PM  up 239 days, 23:08, 4 users, load averages: 1.52, 1.46, 1.17

3.1-STABLE FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE #0: Fri Jul 16 10:27:30 EDT 1999

The only thing I have been keeping upto date on it has been the various
applications like bind and apache for security reasons. The customer has
not paid me to cvsup/rebuild/reboot etc.  They are happy and dont want to
change a thing as its been so stable for them. 

So, is 3.x STABLE a stable system ? Yes, it has been for us, as well as
many other people... I have a few dozen or so other 3.x boxes deployed in
various production sites.  They have done very well for us.  I have also
started deploying 4.x machines slowly into production... Same positive
results.

So how about we let this thread die ASAP ? Or move it to -chat.

	---Mike
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Mike Tancsa,                          	          tel +1 519 651 3400
Network Administrator,     			  mike@sentex.net
Sentex Communications                 		  www.sentex.net
Cambridge, Ontario Canada


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