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Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:20:48 +1000
From:      Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
Cc:        W Alexander Hagen <aligzanduh@yahoo.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Freebsd REL_ENG 4.3 p28 freezes every 30 minutes. 
Message-ID:  <nospam-1016493648.23629@bambi.gbch.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020318230452.GC83798@genius.tao.org.uk>  of Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:04:52 GMT
References:  <20020318223507.GC76731@genius.tao.org.uk> <20020318225313.45861.qmail@web9904.mail.yahoo.com> <20020318230452.GC83798@genius.tao.org.uk> 

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Josef Karthauser wrote:

| > I like to understand the problem, before upgrading out of it. This
| > is the 28th patch of REL ENG 4.3 after all. It should be very stable.
| 
| 4.3 is two whole major releases ago.  You should be running 4.5, which
| you can get by cvsuping using the tag RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE, or the tag
| RELENG_4 if you wish to be at the head of developments on the -stable
| branch.

This is not wise advice.  There are lots of circumstances where
4.3 is perfectly fine and can be shown to work while 4.4 and 4.5
are broken.  I have had to revert to 4.3 on several machines
after attempting unsuccessfully to run 4.4 and 4.5 (and current,
for that matter).

Greg

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