Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 00:35:22 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Mark Newton <newton@cleese.apana.org.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Kernel changes between 2.0-RELEASE and snapshot Message-ID: <199501250835.AAA06007@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Jan 95 18:36:11 %2B1030." <199501250806.AA07124@cleese.apana.org.au>
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>Time permitting, could someone please forward me a list of kernel changes >and/or bug fixes between 2.0-RELEASE and the latest snapshot? I'm having >stability problems on my public access UNIX, and it'd be nice if changes >in the latest release have fixed 'em. Hmmm...well, we don't have such a list. If you are interested in hearing about the changes as they happen, you should subscribe to the CVS commit mailing list - this way you will get the log messages via email when they happen. Other than a general 'new features' summary that is provided with each new release, the CVS commit log is the only description of the changes being made to the FreeBSD source tree. I'm not aware of any bugs that cause 'hangs' in 2.0 that prevent you from entering the kernel debugger...not to say that one doesn't exist...but I haven't seen or heard of any (other than with your report). Are you sure that you are attempting to enter the debugger correctly? And you are sure that you have DDB in your kernel config file? Just making sure... On the positive note, there have been a large number of bug fixes since 2.0-release. The latest snapshot has serious problems, however, and while the next one should be the best one yet, I'm not sure that it would be wise to switch to it (considering the kind of load that your machine is experiancing) until the code has been shaken out a bit more. ...On the other hand, testing on a machine with a high load such as yours is good way to ensure that the bugs that do exist are fixed before the 2.1 release. Whether or not you wish to be involved in this is a different matter, however. :-) -DG
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