How stable are folks finding FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE to be? The improvements are welcome, but there have been a few troubling messages about kernel panics and VM issues on the various mailing lists. It's never clear until the release drops whether these are actual problems with the software or hardware defects in individual systems, so I am eager to hear how the new release is working for everyone. --Brett Glass
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:01:26 -0600 Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net> wrote:> How stable are folks finding FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE to be? The > improvements are welcome, but there have been a few troubling > messages about kernel panics and VM issues on the various mailing > lists. It's never clear until the release drops whether these are > actual problems with the software or hardware defects in individual > systems, so I am eager to hear how the new release is working for everyone.I have just upgraded two virtual machines running on ESXi. They are i386 with 256Mb of RAM and one CPU, with just a few ports installed (sudo and screen and dependencies). They don't do much job (low-traffic authoritative nameservers for a dozen of domains). I upgraded by freebsd-update. I don't see any problems so far. Also my laptop is 9-STABLE amd64 (currently at r255867) and I do not have any more problems than usual (the unfortunate AR9285 wifi adapter). -- Marko Cupa?
Le Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:01:26 -0600, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> a écrit : Hello,> How stable are folks finding FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE to be? The > improvements are welcome, but there have been a few troubling > messages about kernel panics and VM issues on the various mailing > lists. It''s never clear until the release drops whether these are > actual problems with the software or hardware defects in individual > systems, so I am eager to hear how the new release is working for > everyone.I''ve seen two problems if you use poudriere (on ZFS only?) which occur in some loads (ie desktop running gvfsd). One fix is in 9-STABLE and the other one should be mfced soon. May be there will be an errata for 9.2-RELEASE for this ? I think that would be nice because 9.2 is stable as a Windows 3.11 with my load :-) Regards. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
Le Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:01:26 -0600, Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net> a ?crit : Hello,> How stable are folks finding FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE to be? The > improvements are welcome, but there have been a few troubling > messages about kernel panics and VM issues on the various mailing > lists. It's never clear until the release drops whether these are > actual problems with the software or hardware defects in individual > systems, so I am eager to hear how the new release is working for > everyone.I've seen two problems if you use poudriere (on ZFS only?) which occur in some loads (ie desktop running gvfsd). One fix is in 9-STABLE and the other one should be mfced soon. May be there will be an errata for 9.2-RELEASE for this ? I think that would be nice because 9.2 is stable as a Windows 3.11 with my load :-) Regards.
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 21:01:26 +0200, Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net> wrote:> How stable are folks finding FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE to be? The improvements > are welcome, but there have been a few troubling messages about kernel > panics and VM issues on the various mailing lists. It's never clear > until the release drops whether these are actual problems with the > software or hardware defects in individual systems, so I am eager to > hear how the new release is working for everyone. > > --Brett GlassI agree that on the mailinglist it looks like this happens: 1. X.Y-RELEASE 2. bugfixes on X.Y-STABLE 3. half way between 2 releases X.Y-STABLE looks pretty good 4. announcement code freeze X.(Y+1)-RELEASE is coming 5. MFC all kinds of new features from -HEAD to -STABLE 6. A lot of mails about bugs and also fixes 7. X.(Y+1)-RELEASE 8. bugfixes on X.(Y+1)-STABLE 9. half way between 2 releases X.(Y+1)-STABLE is pretty good But in the end a mailinglist is a collection of problem reports and not a collection of success stories. For a lot of people it runs very well and you never here them. So I guess it all runs pretty well unless your system does not. Cheers, Ronald.