From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 18 19: 2:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [216.235.52.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 389B637B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:02:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6J22Ax21160; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 16:02:10 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 16:02:08 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Peter Wemm , Subject: Re: Userbase of -current In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 11:18 PM -0700 7/17/01, Peter Wemm wrote: > >If I had to guess, I'd put the total [genuine] -current userbase > >at between 20 and 50 people. And many of those intentionally lag > >by a few weeks to a month or two. > > At the kernel-confab at usenix, I heard some people talking about > how "current wasn't really as bad as people assume it is". I must > admit I wonder how much current is actively used. I know I try > to build a new up-to-date current every two or three weeks, but I > don't do much more on it than test a few changes. I am certainly > not "stress-testing" it. Almost all of my real day-to-day work is > done on machines which are tracking -stable. > > I have no profound comment to follow that up with, other than I'm > surprised that someone would think there are only 50 people who > are "really running" current. I'm going to ask around a bit more. Somehow I always thought there were more than 50 people who are "really running" current. We do stress test it though and it had performed flawlessly over the past 8 years. Question though, does anyone happen to know what the largest maxusers variable is that one can define in the kernel config file? We have it at 512 but what's the highest number people have used reliably? Thanks. Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message