End-of-life for my amd64 ?

[Kris Kennaway]

Ivan Voras wrote:
> NetOpsCenter wrote:
> 
>> I have been using FreeBSD 7.0  since Jan  8 2007  CURRENT on this box 
>> which is a desktop for browsing and email  with a Dual core AMD CPU 
>> setup.
>> It rocks.
>>
>> I use FreeBSD 7.0 Current on 2 small mailservers using 3 year old 
>> hardware and it is rock solid. I believe the FreeBSD team has really 
>> got their act together on this one.
> 
> Are you using any of the new features in 7.x? SCHED_ULE, ZFS? Because my 
> only 7.x production server that does crashes daily (luckily it's not a 
> critical machine) and non-server machines are not far behind. If you're 
> not using the "new" features, you could just as well run 6.x :)
> 
> I'm actively trying to solve some of these problems, but from my 
> experience (I do a lot of things that may be considered "experimental", 
> but mostly userland-side, I run "vanilla" kernels) 7 simply isn't stable 
> yet. It might be in 7.0, but it's not yet.

I use 7.0 on about 70 machines that are extremely heavily loaded, all 
running ULE, ranging from single through to 8 CPUs, some using ZFS, etc. 
  I don't see these problems you are claiming, so you'll have to do some 
more detective work.

Kris