Re: Why I should use FBSD 4.9/10 and not 5.2.1?
From: Kris Kennaway (kkenn_at_xor.obsecurity.org)
Date: 05/05/04
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Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 05:00:08 GMT
On 2004-05-05, Jean-Yves Avenard <me@privacy.net> wrote:
> Lars Eighner wrote:
>>
>> Not crashing all the time would be one reason.
>>
> I recently contacted a company in Germany providing FreeBSD server
> hosting. The version of FreeBSD they were running was 4.5. When I
> enquired about that they said that stability deteriorated after 4.5 and
> more importantly the SMP support was broken in 4.8 and 4.9
>
> Is this true?
Not in general. Perhaps they had problems with particular hardware,
but without knowing details it's impossible to say whether the problem
is in FreeBSD or the hardware, or elsewhere. For example, I recently
exchanged a lot of emails with someone who complained that 4.x had
buggy SMP after 4.8-RELEASE. After taking him through the standard
debugging techniques of isolating changes, checking hardware, and
applying BIOS and firmware updates, his problem was resolved by a BIOS
update.
In other words, the instability was caused by a buggy BIOS on his SMP
hardware that just happened to be tickled by the newer version of
FreeBSD.
Kris
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