From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 25 22:39:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.cvzoom.net (ns.cvzoom.net [208.226.154.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F55937B988 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 22:39:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmmiller@cvzoom.net) Received: (qmail 1664 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2000 05:39:10 -0000 Received: from acs-63-90-94-131.zoominternet.net (HELO cvzoom.net) (63.90.94.131) by ns.cvzoom.net with SMTP; 26 Jun 2000 05:39:10 -0000 Message-ID: <3956EC7D.6AA59E83@cvzoom.net> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 01:39:09 -0400 From: Donn Miller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > > > Some days is OK, imho. Much more than that and I'd begin to worry. > > Much more than a week or two and I'd worry a lot. I'll go put a note > > in updating right now. > > That's okay with me too. People should just not upgrade their work > machines for the next few days until entropy is fixed. It would be interesting to see how many people are using FreeBSD-current as a "work" machine, if you mean "work" to be a production machine doing actual server work. A lot of times, -current has been pretty stable for me, and I avoided a lot of "make world" and stability problems by following what's going on in this mailing list. I've only had a couple problems over the past 3 1/2 years with stability in FreeBSD-current, starting with 3.0-current. Granted, it's not generally recommended to use -current boxes as your main machine, but if you're careful, it's doable. I say FreeBSD-current makes a pretty decent production machine if the admin is smart enough to follow the mailing list and is knowledegeable enough to recognize the pitfalls of running such a beast. All others should be running 4.0-release or -stable, of course. - Donn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message