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Date:      Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:13:59 +0200
From:      "Nicklas B. Westerlund" <nicklas@dinpris.no>
To:        Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
Cc:        Alexey Yakimovich <aiy@ferens.net>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Quality of FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <42DF9187.3060000@dinpris.no>
In-Reply-To: <20050721113737.GB52753@stack.nl>
References:  <1121917413.4895.47.camel@localhost.localdomain>	<20050721113927.T97888@fledge.watson.org> <20050721113737.GB52753@stack.nl>

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Marc Olzheim wrote:

>
>but I'd like a clear answer on
>what to do now in regard to taking FreeBSD 5 into 'real' production...
>
>  
>

I'd have to second this request.  We rely heavily on the stability and
performance of FreeBSD in our business.
We've only had the occasional stupid hang on our RELENG_5_4 systems, but
I've deployed both RELENG_6
and -CURRENT in our labs now to see what kind of results I can get out
of it.

Although I havn't seen any major problems on our servers, all using u320
scsi and smp - I don't feel as secure about my choice of upgrading to 5.x.
We still have some 4.x servers in production, and judging by how this is
evolving, I think I'll rather skip the 5-branch for those machines and
keep testing 6.x.
The last thing we need is servers with problems to disturb our sleep at
night.

Overall I think we're a few of the lucky ones, as alot of people seem to
have huge problems which we havn't encountered, again that is because of
different architectures and such.

Nick.



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