Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:51:41 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Barney Wolff <barney@tp.databus.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS?
Message-ID:  <20021118115141.C85169@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20021118034432.GA82792@tp.databus.com>; from barney@tp.databus.com on Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 10:44:32PM -0500
References:  <20021117185144.T30747-100000@fubar.adept.org> <20021117232748.I23359-100000@hub.org> <20021118034432.GA82792@tp.databus.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 10:44:32PM -0500, Barney Wolff wrote:

Can this bikeshed be painted on -chat please?


> Er, other than send-pr?  Is the complaint that things don't get fixed
> quickly enough?  Compared to what other real-world OS?
> 
> I may be misremembering, but as I recall one of the symptoms was a
> reboot with no panic.  I don't mean to be insulting, but are you quite
> sure that power is not involved?  I see things like that when my
> UPS battery has gone bad, and any slight dip in line voltage causes
> the UPS to switch but the battery gives nothing.  And I can't count
> the number of times I've had power hits in a telco server room.  I
> apologize in advance if I've confused your problem with somebody else's.
> 
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:29:05PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > 
> > You have missed everything I've written, haven't you?  The server(s)
> > crashing does not bother me ... IMHO, if I can cause it to crash, and
> > someone can fix it, someone else won't be affected ...
> > 
> > What I *want* is some useful mechanism for getting such bugs addressed so
> > that they don't repeat ...
> 
> -- 
> Barney Wolff         http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf
> I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.
> 
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
---end of quoted text---

-- 
|   / o / /_  _   				wilko@FreeBSD.org
|/|/ / / /(  (_)  Bulte				Arnhem, the Netherlands

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20021118115141.C85169>