From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 15 3:39: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shikima.mine.nu (pc1-card4-0-cust77.cdf.cable.ntl.com [62.252.49.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EBCD37B402 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 03:38:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from rasputin by shikima.mine.nu with local (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16lq2s-0005Kz-00; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:38:50 +0000 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:38:50 +0000 From: Rasputin To: Sam Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comment Message-ID: <20020315113850.A20490@shikima.mine.nu> Reply-To: Rasputin References: <3C9139C3.B30FB77E@vortex.wa4phy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3C9139C3.B30FB77E@vortex.wa4phy.net>; from sam@wa4phy.net on Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:01:07PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Sam [020315 10:30]: > Fwiw, I had been experiencing system wedging for no apparent reason > about every 6 days. 9 days ago, I disabled softupdates, and have not > had a single instance of a problem. As of today, I rebuilt world & > kernel from a cvsup 2 days ago. Everything went smoothly, with no > problems. I realize there have been some changes made to things related > to softupdates, and have been following the -stable mailings. I did see > somewhat a degradation in disk activity with softupdates off, but for my > usage, nothing that would seriously hurt. Question.. in the last 30 > days, maybe more, were any really significant problems squashed with > softupdates? I was absent for about 2 weeks between Jan and early Mar, > so didn't see everything. > > I may get fussed at for this, but who do I need to ask about bringing / > porting a software package into the *bsd realm? You want to make a port? Good man! Have a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ Softupdates seems nice n stable under STABLE at the moment, but then I haven't had a problem with them in at least a year. -- Don't look back, the lemmings are gaining on you. Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns :: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message