From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 2 10:53: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD4337B4C5 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 10:53:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AFC935730B; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 12:53:06 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 12:53:06 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD in good standing in netcraft survey Message-ID: <20001102125306.A13005@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" Mail-Followup-To: "Michael C . Wu" , Terry Lambert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001102013134.A23799@citusc17.usc.edu> <200011021535.IAA08227@usr09.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011021535.IAA08227@usr09.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:35:41PM +0000 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:35:41PM +0000, Terry Lambert scribbled: | > > BTW, we didn't fare very well at all in the top *average* | > > uptimes. Sun OTOH, did. Bugger. | > | > IMO, this can be plausibly explained by the availability of updated | > code for the two platforms. With Sun they release patches relatively | > infrequently, kernel patches less frequently still..OTOH FreeBSD | > "releases patches" many times each day, encouraging the admin to | > upgrade frequently to scratch the itch of being "up to date". | | This is an artifact of FreeBSD kernel modularity not being | what it should be, rather than the (in)frequency of patches, | one way or another. | | I personally think I should be able to "hot swap" any kernel | subsystem, including the VM code, without rebooting my machine. As I understand, has there not been a plan to do a similiar thing in the future since FreeBSDCon1999? -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message