From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 6 14:59:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B84116A4CE; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 14:59:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1BD43D49; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 14:59:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (a68a602e37c500f9af2bf8d2775ee0c8@adsl-67-115-73-128.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.115.73.128])i56LxMYu027449; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 14:59:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6E4C953F64; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 14:59:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 14:59:21 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20040606215921.GA96205@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <40C36D31.4010003@freebsd.org> <20040606193510.GA95886@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> <40C37F3C.1050602@freebsd.org> <20040606211249.GC96607@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> <20040606214228.GA44280@freebie.xs4all.nl> <40C39159.1030102@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40C39159.1030102@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: Marcel Moolenaar cc: hackers@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org cc: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 21:59:26 -0000 --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 03:49:13PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > amd64 is approaching critical mass for tier-1. There are a number of > developers that own amd64 hardware now, and a number of users who are > asking about it on the mailing lists. Peter is finishing up the last > blocking item for it (kld's) not including the observed KSE problems. > It's very close and I _will_ hold up the release for it to get done. > amd64 is the future of commodity computing and we aren't going to > ignore it for 5-STABLE. amd64 has a bug with swapping - when something begins to access swap, the entire system becomes almost entirely unresponsive (e.g. no mouse response for up to 10 seconds) until it stops. Peter has some ideas about it, but it's a serious enough bug that it forced me to stop using amd64 as my desktop machine (hello, kde!). Kris --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAw5O4Wry0BWjoQKURAiPKAJ45IDqrEgb6Y0BFELP5YR6oHLUdNQCfZd7U PUiwpcn9HzOPdxUUSukTvYs= =m5I3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi--