4.9 stability update

[Peter Wemm]

Scott Long wrote:
> All,
> 
> We'd like to get a new poll on the stability and readiness of 4.9.  The
> belief is that the last of the PAE-induced instability was resolved on
> August 31.  Is anyone still experiencing unusual crashes, corruption,
> etc, on a system that is running with up-to-date sources?  Now is the
> time to speak up and get the problems resolved so that we can make the
> deadline by next weekend.  Any new testing would be highly appreciated,
> especially in reduced-memory configurations and of course >4GB PAE
> configurations.

In the spirit of 'eat our own dogfood', the *.freebsd.org cluster has
been running 4.9-prerelease as of a few days ago with no unexpected
ill effects.

Cheers,
-Peter
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