From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 7 22:50:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA12040 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 22:50:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA12034 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 22:50:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from venus.mcs.com (root@Venus.mcs.com [192.160.127.92]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id AAA11717 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 00:50:50 -0500 (CDT) Received: by venus.mcs.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.5) id ; Thu, 8 Aug 96 00:50 CDT Message-Id: Subject: -CURRENT release build -- this one WORKS To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 00:50:49 -0500 (CDT) From: "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi folks, Just a quick note -- I have a RELEASE built on my system "codebase.mcs.net"; if you connect there, grab from the path "ftp://codebase.mcs.net/R", with the release name "ftp", you'll get the current bits. This particular build is EXTREMELY stable. I've been unable to crash it in almost two weeks of trying. We are running a huge production news server on a PPro 200 here with this, as well as a bunch of NNTP client machines (using shared active) and will shortly start loading a lot of other systems with this cut as well. I have seen *zero* crashes with this build, and ZERO problems. Other than the lkm/kernel issue (careful with that Axe Eugene, rebuild liblkm and the "ps-like" utilities when you play with the kernel bits) this is a great release. I have yet to see *any* crashes with this configuration running INN 1.4 on one of the more busy news environments on the net (dual NICs, dual PCI SCSI disk adapters, 4 Quantum Atlas 4G drives, the works) as well as on two other machines I intentionally beat the crap out of to see if I could break them. The CVS tree I extracted to build this came over here around 26 July. I'll note that -STABLE, on these same machines, has a half-life before NFS lockups or similar insanity calls it to fall over and die of about 48 hours. There are obviously *major* stability improvements between these code cuts. Enjoy. As long as people are reasonable with the load, you can feel free to grab the bits as noted above. This release does *not* have our proprietary and odd stuff in it, and also is lacking some of the "backward compatibility" stuff. In our environment that this build is being used right now, we don't really care one way or the other. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1 from $600 monthly; speeds to DS-3 available | 23 Chicagoland Prefixes, 13 ISDN, much more Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1] | Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ Fax: [+1 312 248-9865] | Home of Chicago's only FULL Clarinet feed!