Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:27:27 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee> Cc: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "leak" in softupdates? Message-ID: <20030307081643.B15693@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20030307101718.GA1908@kevad.internal> References: <20030305204526.T38115@hub.org> <20030307090033.GA61037@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030307101718.GA1908@kevad.internal>
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On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:00:33AM -0800, David Schultz > <das@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > [...] > > What I really don't understand is how you seem to manage to run > > into more bugs than everyone else. (FYI, the libc_r/KVA_PAGES > > bug is now fixed in -STABLE.) > > He has rather unusual requirements compared to a lot of others. As I > understand he runs hundreds of jails and has thousands of processes, > putting real challenge to VM. All this means that FreeBSD > isn't ready to enterprise yet, no matter what advocacy has to say. > I'm glad Marc hasn't gave up and every now-and-then sends the > findings out to lists, for the benefit of others, particularly > developers. One word about "enterprise"; I'm sure Yahoo and similar > big players run also FreeBSD on "big boxes", but they have real > engineers in the field and have customised installations, I guess. > Off-the-shelf FreeBSD isn't ready yet. As Vallo says above ... the 'bug' that Tor helped me fix this past week, with vnlru_proc, being a good example ... how many ppl are running their server with 132 active mount points? From what I can tell, the bugs I'm hitting are all 'fringe bugs', stuff that you really have to be doing something extreme to hit ... but, as such, if I can get the bug fixed, its also one less bug that has the chance of hurting someone else ... As for 'the enterprise', I think the only thing that I really find about FreeBSD that 'hurts' is that I can't go above the 4Gig of RAM limit within ia32, even though there are boards that do support it ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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