From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) Subject: Re: stability of pl 11 vs pl 9 ? Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 04:24:16 GMT
yvain@microsup14.ucc.su.oz.au (The Dispossessed) writes:
>Ewen Macdonald (ewenm@ee.mu.OZ.AU) wrote:
>: Just curious about the stability of pl 11 before I
>: upgrade to SLS 1.03. I seem to remember that pl 9
>: was meant to be particularly stable but pl 10
>: introduced some problems.
>I have found that 99p9 is much more stable than 99p11
>at present. This seems to be the case especially when
>it comes to networking. My home machine runs 99p11, and
>doesnt give me that much grief, but then it isnt networked
>The box I am posting this from dies really badly when i
>boot with a p11 kernel, so i am holding off from updating
>at present (the net is already _very busy_ and people would
>not be happy if i load it even more)
Well, we're running pl12Alpha right now (was running pl11)
and we find that the machine does die, just the networking code
does..after, oh, 20+ hours. We can still do telnet's, since
it is mainly the nfs mounted directories that die, so as root
we can telnet into the machine from a remote machine and just
issue a reboot, and she runs find again for another day or so
(Note...the pl12Alpha we are running is *not* the current one
that is available...)
The machine that we are running is directly connected to
the Internet, and is acting as a partial application server for
our local machines, so the load is pretty substantial
marc