Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 01:17:21 +0100 From: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk> To: "Jo Rhett" <jrhett@netconsonance.com>, "Edwin Groothuis" <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 Message-ID: <84EBEA5D3A1F47E79E8E12C4CF4D0314@multiplay.co.uk> References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com><4846D849.2090005@FreeBSD.org> <20080604204325.GD4701@lava.net><20080604234532.GA89656@k7.mavetju> <458FE12C-AE4D-48F9-8193-4663079CEEF8@netconsonance.com>
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From: "Jo Rhett" <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
> I'm sorry to hear that. Our servers have never hung with 6.2.
> Reboots only occurred to satisfy kernel security patches.
>
> But with 6.3 there are many open bug reports about our exact hardware,
> and I'd prefer to avoid swapping positions with you ;-0
I wouldn't be surprised if these are not new bugs, just something
that others have noticed later than 6.2 and I'd suggest you actually
try 6.3 to see if they are in fact an issue for you.
We have been very happy with 6.2 here and we have quite a few
machines using it. Apart from the very occasional crash when
odd things like multi disk failures, they have all be solid.
We won't however be upgrading to 6.3, instead we are moving to
7.0 which has again has been proved very stable here, but has
the add benefit of a large amount of improvements especially
in SMP performance. You may wish to consider this as an
alternative after validation with your hardware / software of
course :)
Regards
Steve
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