From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 7 7:44:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.cybersites.com (unknown [207.92.123.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98B571523F for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 07:44:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cyouse@cybersites.com) Received: from localhost (cyouse@localhost) by ns1.cybersites.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA12328 for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 10:41:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cyouse@cybersites.com) X-Authentication-Warning: ns1.cybersites.com: cyouse owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 10:41:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Youse To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Stability concerns in latest -STABLEs. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've read a few messages in the last week or so that indicate some sort of filesystem problems in the latest (post-March) -STABLEs. Unfortunately, the timing couldn't be worse. I've been rallying behind FreeBSD at my company for the last three months or so; I've been slowly-but-surely replacing their current production Linux servers with FreeBSD, not for religious reasons, but because I truly believe that it performs more predictably and reliably in production environments. This weekend I was planning to move our most important, heavily-trafficked web site to an SMP FreeBSD server from its current Linux home. I'm trying to decide if I should stay with 3.1-RELEASE until the -STABLE problems have been resolved -- so I suppose my question is this: have others been experiencing serious stability problems with 3.1-STABLE of late, or are these isolated incidents? Stated differently, are others out there running 3.1-STABLE on production servers in relatively filesystem-intensive, sustained load situations who can put my mind at ease? I don't want to destroy _my_ credibility, or spoil any hope for a future with FreeBSD at this company by watching everything fall over due to a transient bug. Chuck Youse Director of Systems cyouse@cybersites.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message