Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 11:48:54 -0800 From: Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Code Freeze again (was Re: A day in the life of a hacker (was: Re: 'Code Freeze') ) Message-ID: <199803211948.LAA01126@snapdragon.csl.sri.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "21 Mar 1998 17:46:11 %2B0100." <xzp4t0sq9f0.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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`DES' wrote: > . > . > . >And, well, whaddya know, in slightly less time than it takes me to >read half a chapter - with 128 MB RAM and two 2940s, she's a slow >booter - she's back up, alive and kicking and purring like a cat. Not >a single glitch, not a single complaint, her fan doesn't even miss a >beat. I'd say I'm in love if I didn't suspect it'd lower my chances of >picking up girls. > >So keep it up, guys, nobody can do it quite the way *you* can. > >Oh - and by the way, methinks 2.2.6 is gonna be the best release in a >long while. It certainly has added more "marketable" functionality >(e.g. PnP support, new audio drivers) than any previous release I can >remember. Then again, I haven't been around more than two years or so. > I'd really like to help with shaking down 2.2.6 BETA. Unfortunately I've had the following experience. I was running -current and it just got too unstable and people were warning that one could kill one's filesystems with it. I could reliably crash my system by doing a tar zxvf on a large gzipped tar file on an NFS-mounted partition. I finally figured I needed to get some work done and decided to back my workstation down to -stable. I got the 2.2.6-980315-BETA snap. I started a `make world' up over my ISDN link at home, ran a few errands and went to work. When I got to work it was done (this is a P-II 300 box). I re-built the kernel and rebooted, waiting with bated breath for the thing to blow up. Unfortunately since then the system hasn't crashed or acted erratically in the slightest. Of course it's only been a couple of days, and I mostly just run CMU lisp on it, but I can't get it to crash any more by doing tar zxvf or running `configure' on octave 2.10 or any of the other ways I used to get it to crash. So I'm afraid that right now 2.2.6 is too stable for me to be much help in finding the bugs in 2.2.6 BETA. :-) -Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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