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To: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: do softupdates work on SMP -stable and -current now?
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Roger Hardiman wrote:

> Hi,
> I remember reading in the mailing lists how softupdates
> were unreliable on SMP 3.x and -current machines about 6-8 months
> ago.
> 
> Is this all fixed now for SMP machines?
> 
> I've been using softupdates on a uni-processor 3.2-stable machine
> and it works well. I wanted to try it on my two
> SMP machines (one has 3.2-stable, one has -current)

We have a couple of large(ish) systems (both dual P2/Pro's) running Vinum and
softupdates, and I've not seen any problems... One was up until recently 3.1,
there both 4.0-current now...

-Karl


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