Long uptime 5.2.1 server

[Avleen Vig]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 02:35:20PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> > We've got a FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 server that's been up for 460
> > days now, with pretty heavy use the whole time (70GB+ per day http  
> > traffic, 140 hits/sec, etc).
> 
> Funny that some people insist on complaining about 5.x instability. :P

There were always two things I would recommend waiting for before moving
to 5.x:
	1. Performance. I remember reading the after 5.0's release, much
		 debugging code was still in the OS and kernel which would reduce
		 performance.
  2. Stability. After 5.0 came out, most production environments were
		 advised not to upgrade or put 5.x out, as we know there were
		 probably many obscure bugs still present and trying to be worked
		 out.

(2) was put to rest when -STABLE was branched, but I never heard that
(1) was dealt with. I assume it was but it would be nice to be sure :-)

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