Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

From: Philippe PEGON (Philippe.Pegon_at_crc.u-strasbg.fr)
Date: 10/31/05

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    Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:19:40 +0100
To: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>

    Marc Olzheim wrote:
    > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:36:42AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
    >
    >>>Anyone having updates for my showstopper page, please, notify me...
    >>>
    >>>http://www.stack.nl/%7Emarcolz/FreeBSD/showstoppers.html
    >>
    >>The pty problem is likely a side effect of known locking problems with
    >>ttys and ptys in general. This probably the weakest part of the kernel
    >>right now and I don't know of a good work-around for apps that use these
    >>extensively. That said, there doesn't seem to be much of a problem with
    >>casual use; I use screen(1) quite a bit on my production 6.0-RC
    >>mailserver+firewall.
    >
    >
    > I know it doesn't trigger too often for most users, but still, for us,
    > once a week per server on 2 production servers we installed FreeBSD 5
    > and 6 on, is way too often. :-(

    for information, we have the same problem on our productions servers
    with FreeBSD 5 and I know that we are not alone. We hoped a lot for a
    solution with FreeBSD 6 after this thread :

    http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-stable/2005-June/016154.html

    but I have just tested with FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 and the problem is always
    there :-( 

    --
Philippe PEGON
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