From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 13 12:55:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA27659 for current-outgoing; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 12:55:33 -0800 Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [198.81.209.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA27648 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 12:55:30 -0800 Received: by covina.lightside.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0tF5uF-0009Z5C; Mon, 13 Nov 95 12:55 PST Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 12:55:06 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby To: Heikki Suonsivu cc: current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISP state their FreeBSD concerns In-Reply-To: <199511131351.PAA20135@shadows.cs.hut.fi> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 13 Nov 1995, Heikki Suonsivu wrote: > We get panics, sometimes lockups, at pace of 1-2 machines per day (from a > pool of approximately ~5 servers and ~15 routers or terminal servers built > on top of FreeBSD. I'm running -current. On servers the problems seem > often to be scsi related. On routers panics seem very rare, on terminal > (modem) servers and routers with serial ports panic about once a week. I'm sure you're aware that -current is considered "Bleeding Edge" and should definitely NOT be used in a production environment unless you're willing to deal with crashes, broken-ness in the source tree, etc! Really, -stable or even RELEASE is a much better choice. > BTW, Out-of-box Slackware installation doesn't format the manual pages > either, at least it was like that some time ago. I seem to recall that Slackware ONLY came with preformatted (and gzipped) man pages for most commands. ---Jake