From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 21 16:55:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02775 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 16:55:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02710 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 16:55:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA00257; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 19:55:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199803220055.TAA00257@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: John's latest round of changes In-Reply-To: <199803212152.NAA00417@mordred.cs.ucla.edu> from Scott Michel at "Mar 21, 98 01:52:43 pm" To: scottm@cs.ucla.edu (Scott Michel) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 19:55:28 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott Michel said: > I've been running a CVSup'd kernel from yesterday, relatively trouble > free. I'd concur with John: it seems OK for the moment, but be prepared > to back out at a moment's notice. > > Do not use soft updates. That's still pretty unstable (although I've > yet to get a decent panic and traceback -- machine spontaneously > reboots under load.) > I have been finding numerous little problems with softupdates. Most of 'em are nits, but bad enough to crash the system at times. As I find them, I have been committing fixes. So far, they has been little interface problems regarding assumptions made by Kirk, and changes made in our usage. I haven't found any bugs in the softupdates code per-se lately though. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message