Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:59:48 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de> To: Bill Moran <billm@craftmfg.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Overall "feel" for the stability of FreeBSD 5 Message-ID: <20030403205948.GA4929@moghedien.mukappabeta.net> In-Reply-To: <002901c2f9f5$e909c2f0$613818ac@craftmfg.com> References: <002901c2f9f5$e909c2f0$613818ac@craftmfg.com>
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Bill Moran writes: >2) For a dedicated backup server, that can tolerate the > performance problems that folks have been reporting, and > won't upset the entire office if it panics on occasion, is 5 > good enough at this point? If the system isn't really too critical, I'd go for it. I'm running 5.0 in workstation use and had some problems with agp and X11 up until 5.0-RELEASE-p7, on which I haven't had a crash or freeze yet and all seems to be stable. I'm using scsi and ide on that machine. Apart from the agp/graphics/X11 problem and one (I think) related kernel panic I've experienced with < -p7, I've not seen any problems. IMHO it's stable enough for use in a relaxed production environment. The more people who engage in testing it, the more problems (also cutting edges in the userland) get ironed out, and the faster that will happen. --mkb
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