I need to build up a few servers and routers, and am wondering how FreeBSD 9.1 is shaping up. Will it be likely to be more stable and robust than 9.0-RELEASE? Are there issues that will have to wait until 9.2-RELEASE to be fixed? Opinions welcome. --Brett Glass
On 1 November 2012, at 19:14, Brett Glass wrote:> I need to build up a few servers and routers, and am wondering how > FreeBSD 9.1 is shaping up. Will it be likely to be more stable and > robust than 9.0-RELEASE?It appears to be for me. I had problems with 9.0 not reading CDs and rebooting with no error messages frequently. I have upgraded to 9.1-RC2 and it now reads CDs just fine, and has not rebooted. However, the uptimes with 9.0 ranged from about 2 hours to 30 days. I have only had 9.1-RC2 running for a couple weeks so have not declared victory yet. I has been running for more than most of the uptimes already.> Are there issues that will have to wait > until 9.2-RELEASE to be fixed? Opinions welcome.I have no information on this.
Am Thu, 1 Nov 2012 20:14:51 -0600 (MDT) schrieb Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net>:> I need to build up a few servers and routers, and am wondering how > FreeBSD 9.1 is shaping up. Will it be likely to be more stable and > robust than 9.0-RELEASE? Are there issues that will have to wait > until 9.2-RELEASE to be fixed? Opinions welcome.If I'm not mistaken, the bge-stuff that makes the default NICs ins HP G8 servers (360+380) actually run will not make it back into 9.1. Intel cards work much better anyway...
On 1 November 2012, at 19:14, Brett Glass wrote:> I need to build up a few servers and routers, and am wondering how > FreeBSD 9.1 is shaping up. Will it be likely to be more stable and > robust than 9.0-RELEASE?Doug Hardie responded:> It appears to be for me. I had problems with 9.0 not reading CDs and rebooting with no error messages frequently. I have upgraded to 9.1-RC2 and it now > reads CDs just fine, and has not rebooted. However, the uptimes with 9.0 ranged from about 2 hours to 30 days. I have only had 9.1-RC2 running for a > couple weeks so have not declared victory yet. I has been running for more than most of the uptimes already.I too had problems with 9.0 spontaneously rebooting after a day or two uptime. One was a freeze after a cvs update of NetBSD pkgsrc. The second time was a spontaneous reboot during a time of idleness; I was in the same room and heard the computer sounds. No more such problem after I updated, building from source, to RELENG_9 (STABLE). I haven't updated yet to 9.1 prerelease, bogged down with ports-upgrading snags and cross-compiling NetBSD. Tom
On 11/01/12 22:14, Brett Glass wrote:> I need to build up a few servers and routers, and am wondering how > FreeBSD 9.1 is shaping up. Will it be likely to be more stable and > robust than 9.0-RELEASE? Are there issues that will have to wait > until 9.2-RELEASE to be fixed? Opinions welcome. > > --Brett Glass > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable at freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe at freebsd.org" >Personally I don't have a warm, fuzzy feeling about 9.x yet. I'm sticking with 8.3 with 4BSD scheduler for now. -- George Mitchell
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net> wrote:> I need to build up a few servers and routers, and am wondering how > FreeBSD 9.1 is shaping up. Will it be likely to be more stable and > robust than 9.0-RELEASE? Are there issues that will have to wait > until 9.2-RELEASE to be fixed? Opinions welcome. >Just another data point: running 9.1-RC1 as well as 9.1-RC2 since they have become available on my primary workstation/build server (for pkgng pkg's), in addition to my mail/web/shell servers. I have managed all my updates via freebsd-update, so no custom bits compiled for the kernel or userland. have had no lockups, and performance is great on my workstation/build server. On all systems I've been using a combination of ufs and zfs w/o issues as well. Hope this helps. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadlogicLA
On 02/11/2012 15:57, Doug Hardie wrote:> > On 1 November 2012, at 19:14, Brett Glass wrote: > >> I need to build up a few servers and routers, and am wondering how >> FreeBSD 9.1 is shaping up. Will it be likely to be more stable and >> robust than 9.0-RELEASE? > > It appears to be for me. I had problems with 9.0 not reading CDs and > rebooting with no error messages frequently. I have upgraded to > 9.1-RC2 and it now reads CDs just fine, and has not rebooted. > However, the uptimes with 9.0 ranged from about 2 hours to 30 days. > I have only had 9.1-RC2 running for a couple weeks so have not > declared victory yet. I has been running for more than most of the > uptimes already. >Personally I have had little issue with 9.0. I started with installing PC-BSD-9.0RC3 then moved to FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Shortly after I installed a world built with clang which found an issue with libthr that is fixed in 9.1 Until yesterday my only restarts have been power failure or updating kernel and/or kmods - I seem to have trouble manually unloading the nvidia kmod so end up restarting. I am fairly certain the restart I had yesterday is related to cuse4bsd-kmod which I have disabled for now to try and prove that. While I can load and use the current version the previous one is the only one I have been able to have activated during startup.