From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 25 0: 0: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0726F15508 for ; Mon, 24 May 1999 23:59:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA82039; Tue, 25 May 1999 00:58:39 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id AAA00897; Tue, 25 May 1999 00:58:33 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199905250658.AAA00897@harmony.village.org> To: "David Schwartz" Subject: Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? Cc: "Mike Smith" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 May 1999 23:28:00 PDT." <000001bea677$bc99d5f0$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> References: <000001bea677$bc99d5f0$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 00:58:33 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <000001bea677$bc99d5f0$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> "David Schwartz" writes: : That I do disagree with. The complaint was precise -- the : RELEASE was not stable. Crap. Without providing details about *HOW* the release isn't stable, it isn't precice enough. I run FreeBSD-stable 3.1 every single day and have had no problems with instability that would cause a reboot every 24 hours. : While it did not contain enough information to solve the problem, there are : certainly possible solutions to it. For example, RELEASEs could be frozen a : bit longer prior to actual release. More effort could be made to obtain : wider testing for pre-RELEASEs. The RELEASE stream could be split off of : STABLE earlier and allowed to stabilize without bouncing STABLE around with : it. Without knowing exactly what the problem is, any attempts at finding a solution is just pissing in the wind. A vauge report that things are instable is not enough to reproduce squat, nor is it enough to know what the instability is. Hell, for all I know, he could be running his system by a Van der Graaf generator which is causing the instability. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message