From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 8 14:28:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C02814E4C for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 14:28:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA13232; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 17:33:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:33:51 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: David Schwartz Cc: The Hermit Hacker , Pierre Beyssac , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Known MMAP() race conditions ... ? In-Reply-To: <001701bec974$a7711d30$021d85d1@youwant.to> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, David Schwartz wrote: > > In general, an operating system should be used for what it does best. If > FreeBSD doesn't run INN very well, use Solaris or Linux. And don't upgrade > production servers without making sure the new operating system version can > handle the job well. > > At WebMaster, we have NT servers, Linux servers, FreeBSD servers, Sparc > servers, and an Irix server. We use each machine for what it does best. > > > ah, okay, so you are saying that FreeBSD shouldn't be demonstrated using > > software that taxes/tweaks bugs in it? I know running -current is somewhat of a gamble, but since you gus think the bug is fixed in it, why not try a snapshot and see how it stands up against the INN code? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message