Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:19:40 +0100 From: Philippe PEGON <Philippe.Pegon@crc.u-strasbg.fr> To: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming Message-ID: <43666E4C.4090205@crc.u-strasbg.fr> In-Reply-To: <20051031160150.GB87483@stack.nl> References: <436116D3.908@samsco.org> <20051031151809.GA83253@stack.nl> <43663A0A.4040608@samsco.org> <20051031160150.GB87483@stack.nl>
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Marc Olzheim wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:36:42AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > >>>Anyone having updates for my showstopper page, please, notify me... >>> >>>http://www.stack.nl/%7Emarcolz/FreeBSD/showstoppers.html >> >>The pty problem is likely a side effect of known locking problems with >>ttys and ptys in general. This probably the weakest part of the kernel >>right now and I don't know of a good work-around for apps that use these >>extensively. That said, there doesn't seem to be much of a problem with >>casual use; I use screen(1) quite a bit on my production 6.0-RC >>mailserver+firewall. > > > I know it doesn't trigger too often for most users, but still, for us, > once a week per server on 2 production servers we installed FreeBSD 5 > and 6 on, is way too often. :-( for information, we have the same problem on our productions servers with FreeBSD 5 and I know that we are not alone. We hoped a lot for a solution with FreeBSD 6 after this thread : http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-stable/2005-June/016154.html but I have just tested with FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 and the problem is always there :-( -- Philippe PEGON
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