From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 7 9: 0:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F65B153D9 for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 09:00:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA18859; Fri, 7 May 1999 08:56:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199905071556.IAA18859@implode.root.com> To: Chuck Youse Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stability concerns in latest -STABLEs. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 May 1999 10:41:30 EDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 08:56:51 -0700 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. 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