Why are so many people using 4.x?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:51:15AM +0100, Chris wrote:

> > Sorry to hear that, can you point me to the PRs you filed so I can
> > take a look?

> I didnt do a PR except one for a minor bug since there was nothing
> logged on it just died, I have kept one machine running 6.0 so I can
> try and resolve the problem and also will upgrade it to 6.1 on release
> to see if things are better, should I enable debugging options so it
> has better chance of logging something?

Yes, you'll want to enable crashdumps (per the developers handbook) at
least, and adding INVARIANTS and INVARIANT_SUPPORT is also a good idea
if you're encountering a panic, because it may catch it earlier and at
the root cause.  If you are seeing a deadlock then enable WITNESS and
DDB.

Kris
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