From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 6 12:07:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA24197 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 12:07:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24185 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 12:07:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA25139; Wed, 6 May 1998 12:05:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd025126; Wed May 6 19:05:08 1998 Message-ID: <3550B45F.446B9B3D@whistle.com> Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 12:05:03 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Open Systems Networking CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP softupdates users problems References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG thanks for the comment.. I don't think that soft-updates is SMP safe yet, so it might not be a good idea.. I'm surprised it ran as much as it did :-) julian Open Systems Networking wrote: > > For those not aware running softupdates on SMP as I have been is pretty > unstable for me. And when it crashes it has taken the last file I was > doing anything with and nukes it. I was editing my .cshrc file saved it > fired up netscape and the machine wedged rebooted and .cshrc is gone. > > Just a warning to anyone thinking about running them on an SMP box, be > prepared to loose stuff when it vomits. > > Chris > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message