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Date:      Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:20:56 -0400
From:      "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
To:        Patrick Thomas <root@utility.clubscholarship.com>, Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu>
Cc:        Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>, <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: top shows all zeroes.
Message-ID:  <200208251820.56614.bts@babbleon.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020825150342.F58763-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com>
References:  <20020825150342.F58763-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com>

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On Sunday 25 August 2002 06:07 pm, Patrick Thomas wrote:
| > It's usually gone after a reboot. Haven't debugged it further since
| > I saw now other problems.
|
| Yes, but other times it is not manifesting, and it _starts_ after a
| reboot.
|
| Also, concerning solving the problem with a reboot, although my
| system is merely a test machine, I am fairly certain that a
| considerable number of people are using "FreeBSD" release versions as
| important and mission critical pieces of their businesses...so this
| would not be an option for some folks (rebooting frequently to
| solve).
|
| _I_ understand that nobody but actual freeBSD developers have any
| business relying on it for anything critical, but I am not sure that
| has been made public successfully.  That is, I think a fair number of
| people are taken by surprise by things like this.  Just my two cents.

Well, the actual *release* versions *are* supposed to be reliable for 
mission-critical applications.  The purpose of the RC and STABLE 
versions being to find problems so that they don't make it to the 
release versions.

|
| --ptat

-- 
Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . .   bts@babbleon.org (personal)

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