From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 06:57:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A049816A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 06:57:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ylpvm29.prodigy.net (ylpvm29-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19CC43D2F for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 06:57:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (adsl-69-104-100-115.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [69.104.100.115])i8K6vNIV031758; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 02:57:24 -0400 Message-ID: <414E7F60.5010400@elischer.org> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:57:36 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Laverdure References: <20040920022927.GA70726@bobbi.cse.buffalo.edu> <414E4B34.9080702@elischer.org> <1095636627.812.2.camel@elemental.DashEvil> In-Reply-To: <1095636627.812.2.camel@elemental.DashEvil> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-BETA5 Available X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 06:57:40 -0000 Chris Laverdure wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 03:15, Julian Elischer wrote: > >>Ken Smith wrote: >> >>>*Clip* >>> >>>Fixes and Enhancements made since BETA4: >>> >>> - Updated floppy device driver (testers trying out floppies on your >>> systems would be appreciated). This fixes a lot of problems with >>> floppy drives not being probed/attached. >>> - Fix for panics on certain hardware during boot if no media in the >>> cdrom drive. >>> - Change to pf logging format to handle 64-bit time. If updating an >>> older system remove /var/log/pflog before restarting pf. >>> - Many more scheduler fixes, we encourage testers to turn PREEMPTION on. >> >>ummm no, today's testing shows that this may not be such a good idea.. >>it produces problem in wierd places, such as the atapi driver. > > > Thank you Julian Elischer! I was just about to enable it again, but I > suppose that isn't exactly wise. Not that I mind having my system > rendered instable in the name of testing. But if there is no way the > information I provide out of it is going to help, then I shall not > torture myself. > > Any specifics or just `problems'? no specifics yet except that it increases "flakiness" > > >>>*clip*