From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 23 11:54: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailbox.reptiles.org (mailbox.reptiles.org [198.96.117.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49C9537BA8D for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 11:54:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@reptiles.org) Received: from localhost (2048 bytes) by mailbox.reptiles.org via sendmail with P:stdio/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:53:58 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.108 1999-Sep-19 #3 built 1999-Oct-27) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:53:58 -0500 From: Jim Mercer To: Nate Williams Cc: Matthew Dillon , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Doh, compiler bug... (was Re: possible bug in kernel/if_ether.c) Message-ID: <20000323145358.D983@reptiles.org> References: <20000322225639.T983@reptiles.org> <200003230515.VAA96507@apollo.backplane.com> <20000323054731.W983@reptiles.org> <200003231829.KAA02591@apollo.backplane.com> <200003231855.KAA02948@apollo.backplane.com> <200003231942.MAA04132@nomad.yogotech.com> <200003231945.MAA04154@nomad.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200003231945.MAA04154@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 12:45:07PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 12:45:07PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > Never mind, I missed the paren. However, I would have written the fix > as follow so I wouldn't have missed the fix. :) > > To each his own. :) so, with this fix, do you think i can consider the box stable enough for production? ie. was the code obviously broken to cause the problem i was seeing, or is it possible that there are other issues (heat, bad memory, etc) that could be causing it? i'm really getting pushed to get the server running, and, well i'm nervous to put it in if it is going to continue to spontaneously reboot. and, since the server has a "Powered by FreeBSD" sticker on it, stability would be a good thing for these corporate types to see. 8^) i'm looking for opinion here, i won't hold you to it. (in fact, i'm really, really pleased that you guys jumped on this so quickly) -- [ Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org +1 416 506-0654 ] [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] [ Don't be fooled by cheap Finnish imitations; BSD is the One True Code. ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message