Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 08:56:51 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Chuck Youse <cyouse@cybersites.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stability concerns in latest -STABLEs. Message-ID: <199905071556.IAA18859@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 May 1999 10:41:30 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905071031020.11179-100000@ns1.cybersites.com>
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>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. Wcarchive is running 3.1-stable. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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