FreeBSD 5.1 stability

[Martin Minkus]

Well perhaps I'll hold off making world as I just cvsupped ;)

Don't wanna lose any stability...

-----Original Message-----
From: Garance A Drosihn [mailto:drosih at rpi.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, 16 October 2003 03:16
To: Kris Kennaway; Valery V.Chikalov
Cc: Martin Minkus; current at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1 stability


At 11:28 PM -0700 10/14/03, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 15, 2003, Valery V.Chikalov wrote:
>
>>  >10:21AM  up 101 days, 17:12, 1 user, load averages: 0.33, 0.58, 
>> 0.44
>
>>  valera at don$ uptime
>>  8:22  up 112 days, 17:14, 1 user, load averages: 1,34 1,69 1,72
>
>I can beat both of you :-)
>
>11:07PM  up 147 days, 48 mins, 0 users, load averages: 2.29, 2.29, 2.24
>
>That's a sparc64 in the bento package build cluster.

I hate to rain on this parade, but that only tells us how reliable 5.x
was 147 days ago.  5.x remains in a state of flux, and there have been
many times in the last 147 days where you could cvsup into a very
unstable system.

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