Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:28:03 +0200 From: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable? Message-ID: <20050719092803.GA10127@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050608180428.GA42445@stack.nl> References: <20050608001306.3FB1F43D5C@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <42A6C7CE.9000002@incubus.de> <200506080908.02478.fcash@ocis.net> <42A71AE1.8020300@incubus.de> <6.2.1.2.0.20050608134054.06b8ccb0@64.7.153.2> <20050608180428.GA42445@stack.nl>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:04:28PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > > >I remember 5.2.1 panicking left and right, on several machines, it was > > >completely unusable. Maybe we just live in different universes. > > > > Me too, but a lot has changed since 5.2.1 which at the time was I think was > > called a preview. The topic is 5.4R. What parts of the OS do you feel are > > not production ready as compared to 4.X ? > > Personnally, when upgrading from 4.x to 5.x, we ran into the following > 3 issues that are still not fixed in 5.4: > > kern/80617: > Hangup writing large blocks to NFS mounted FS (Patches available) > Not exremely important: just don't do that. > > kern/79208: > i387 libm's floorf(), ceilf() and truncf() (Fixed in RELENG_5) > PITA when running threaded calculations. > > kern/78824 > socketpair()/close() race condition (Fixed in CURRENT) > Patch will be MFC'd to RELENG_5 soon. > > Anyway: you won't catch me running an unpatched 5.4 system... I'd say > stick with RELENG_5 for the time being. Since I can't seem to keep any recent RELENG_5 kernel up and running atm. I'd change my viewpoint to run 5.4 and apply all necessary stability patches yourself. I'll prepare a patchset... Marc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC3MejezjnobFOgrERAlyPAJ9VF3v4Q1qbJx0Ng2M2Kz1H9GAdlQCfcoYM YdcHgY92C3BP5sblSUvFh0s= =zBzG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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