Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:30:49 +1000 From: Greg Black <freebsd@mail.gbch.net> To: David Hogan <david@fundamentalit.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable? Message-ID: <nospam-1118190649.27801@gecko.gbch.net> In-Reply-To: <20050608001306.3FB1F43D5C@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20050608001306.3FB1F43D5C@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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On 2005-06-08, David Hogan wrote: > Recently though, I've been playing around with FreeBSD 5.4 on a vmware box, > and I'm beginning to think it may be the way forward in the long run. Having > observed freebsd-stable@freebsd.org for the last couple of weeks, I've > noticed a worrying (to me) amount of traffic regarding kernel panics, > general instability etc, and I'm now posting this in the hope that I might > obtain perspective on this from some experienced FreeBSD users. > > In my time with the Trustix lists, I don't think I came across a serious > kernel issue that wasn't caused by either a lack of a preinstalled driver or > a bad stick of ram. Would you say that this holds true for FreeBSD? I > realise that the FreeBSD user base is a much larger one than the Trustix > user base, and I could be led to believe that the vast majority of people > using 5.4 arent having any problems .. it's just my general impression that > "something's up" with the stability of the 5.4 release. If I were to deploy > a server right now, would a seasoned FreeBSD user use 4.11 or 5.4? I'm currently moving all my customers from 4.x to 5.4 (having run 5.3 and 5.4 on my own machines for some months). I would not move if they used multi-processor machines or non-Intel machines -- but I would not allow my customers to use stuff like that anyway, as none of it is really ready for production use. If you're using standard uni-processor Intel boxes, there's no reason not to go with 5.4; and there are lots of reasons to go with it (and with 6.2 or so when it comes out). Greg
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