Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:38:50 +0000 From: Rasputin <rasputin@shikima.mine.nu> To: Sam <sam@wa4phy.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comment Message-ID: <20020315113850.A20490@shikima.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <3C9139C3.B30FB77E@vortex.wa4phy.net>; from sam@wa4phy.net on Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:01:07PM -0500 References: <3C9139C3.B30FB77E@vortex.wa4phy.net>
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* Sam <sam@wa4phy.net> [020315 10:30]: > Fwiw, I had been experiencing system wedging for no apparent reason > about every 6 days. 9 days ago, I disabled softupdates, and have not > had a single instance of a problem. As of today, I rebuilt world & > kernel from a cvsup 2 days ago. Everything went smoothly, with no > problems. I realize there have been some changes made to things related > to softupdates, and have been following the -stable mailings. I did see > somewhat a degradation in disk activity with softupdates off, but for my > usage, nothing that would seriously hurt. Question.. in the last 30 > days, maybe more, were any really significant problems squashed with > softupdates? I was absent for about 2 weeks between Jan and early Mar, > so didn't see everything. > > I may get fussed at for this, but who do I need to ask about bringing / > porting a software package into the *bsd realm? You want to make a port? Good man! Have a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ Softupdates seems nice n stable under STABLE at the moment, but then I haven't had a problem with them in at least a year. -- Don't look back, the lemmings are gaining on you. Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns :: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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