From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 11 11:17:54 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 11:17:51 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9EBF37B400 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:17:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (Ipittythefoolthattrustsident@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA58823; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:17:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBBJHms98222; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:17:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:17:47 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Roman Shterenzon Cc: Tom , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mysql: a lot of lost connections... Message-ID: <20001211111747.B98131@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <976529526.3a34a876690f1@webmail.harmonic.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <976529526.3a34a876690f1@webmail.harmonic.co.il>; from roman@harmonic.co.il on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:12:06PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: obrien@NUXI.com Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:12:06PM +0200, Roman Shterenzon wrote: > > As has been mentioned on this list, you can use 4.2-STABLE, but you > > must change the compiler. > > > > 4.2-RELEASE has a known mutex bug that was discussed on this list and > > fixed about two days after the release. Since this was a well-known > > bug, > > why on earth did you even bother with 4.2-RELEASE? > > Today I've checked the ERRATA _again_, still no signs of this bug. > We're hopefully not trying to hide bugs like some other *BSD folks tend > to do sometimes? You seem to have missed my emails saying that Jason Evans and I cannot reproduce this (the need for changing the compiler), and my call asking those that can to help. I see not a single person has been willing to spend the time doing this. It is not in the Errata because we don't know what to put in there since there hasn't been an in-depth analysis of the problem. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message