Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:22:49 -0300 From: JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: "Michael R. Wayne" <freebsd@wayne47.com> Subject: Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support Message-ID: <200612222122.50217.joao@matik.com.br> In-Reply-To: <20061222051513.GK63341@manor.msen.com> References: <000801c723bb$efc2b540$260ba8c0@wii.wintecind.com> <200612220259.kBM2xYxc019408@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> <20061222051513.GK63341@manor.msen.com>
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On Friday 22 December 2006 02:15, Michael R. Wayne wrote: > FreeBSD 4.11 can survive a simple burn-in test. FreeBSD 5.X and > 6.1 can not. Here's what I wrote earlier. > burn-in usually is a hardware test and not a software test > Take a server. Configure for SMP, add quotas within jails and > basic IPFW protection with a few hundred dummynet pipes for b/w > throttling (less than 10,000 total IPFW lines). Load the machine > a bit so that it constantly maintains a 3 digit load and run > sufficient active processes to keep it in moderate swap state. let's then qualify cars by how much miles they stand with a flat tire ... any practical value here? So anybody tries to get a server away from swap and you keep it in swap state ... funny theories you have > The result of that minimal-effort test yields machines which can > not maintain 30 days of uptime (most fail in under a week). ahem ... faulty memory or what? http://suporte.matik.com.br/swap-3-year.png -- João A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.brhome | help
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