Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:48:11 +0100 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7+ days of dogfood Message-ID: <20130211114811.09e56b55@fabiankeil.de> In-Reply-To: <20130210000723.GA73630@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20130210000723.GA73630@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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--Sig_/B8MjfHLhnGE7jrPbqNIslo2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > In a long thread started by Peter Wemm on developers@, he described > the move/upgrade of the FreeBSD.org cluster to using FreeBSD-10. A > part of his description included the need to test top-of-tree under > actual real-world conditions. In his words, FreeBSD should "eat its > own dogfood." The new installation on FreeBSD.org, of course, would > test FreeBSD-10 under (heavy) server load.=20 Sounds like an interesting thread, too bad that it happened behind closed doors. =20 > Unfortunately, trying to build firefox with debugging leads > reveals a broken port and building chrome with debugging leads > to a "file system full" issue (because it is a laptop with only > limited disk space). I usually build everything (except the known-to-be-broken png) with debugging and while Firefox indeed seems to crash even more often than usual the port isn't completely broken for me. I disable some of the more crash-prone options, though. The remaining crashes mostly happen upon exit so they are easy to ignore. While I have the space to save the core dumps my system is too slow to conveniently look at them with gdb and I have given up on Firefox anyway. I intend to deflect to chromium once I find a more powerful replacement for my current (pun intended) laptop. > My conclusion: on at least my not-so-new laptop, FreeBSD-10 can > be used in a desktop environment if one takes some care during the > installation. I'm using CURRENT on my also-no-so-new laptop since FreeBSD 7 (I think) and came to the same conclusion. It's unfortunate that the builworld time roughly trippled since 2010 but I guess that's progress and a more powerful system should fix it. I certainly welcome clang in general, though. Fabian --Sig_/B8MjfHLhnGE7jrPbqNIslo2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlEYzHsACgkQBYqIVf93VJ0fQgCgtBvUHpe2e4dIyjV5hozs5LQd ObEAnROf295AJelrCAGJ+8wAJwbaMoKO =JEit -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/B8MjfHLhnGE7jrPbqNIslo2--
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