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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Linux or Free BSD for WWW server?
Message-ID: <1995Nov9.101230.4727@wavehh.hanse.de>
Organization: BSD User Group Hamburg
References: <47oul2$35j@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <47p46t$e24@dim.intersurf.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 95 10:12:30 GMT
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winter@intersurf.net (Matthew N. Dodd) writes:
>Peter Seibel (seibel@mojones.com) wrote:
>: true? The reason, as I understand it was that the Free BSD networking code was
>: based on the old, tried and true BSD code whereas the Linux code was written
>: from scratch. Experiences?
>[dim]:/home/winter> uname -a
>FreeBSD dim 2.0.5-950622-SNAP FreeBSD 2.0.5-950622-SNAP #0: Tue Aug 29 00:03:33
>CDT 1995 winter@dim:/usr/src/sys/compile/DIM i386
>[dim]:/home/winter> uptime
> 8:18PM up 60 days, 14:59, 3 users, load averages: 0.11, 0.06, 0.07
>I dunno. I'm afraid to reboot it now. I dunno what I'm going to do
>when 2.1 comes out.
What we need here is to upgarde a kernel without rebooting the
machine. maybe overwriting it's in-RAM image while using some kind of
'aternate kernel' in RAM to operate in while exchanging the main one.
This is a major stability problem. How are we supposed to reach high
uptimes when we have to restart the kernel every 6 months?
Really, FreeBSD can't be called stable as long as we have to reboot
for upgrades.
:-)
work/scsh-0.4.0(knight)11:11:16% uname -a
NetBSD knight.wavedata.de 1.1_ALPHA NetBSD 1.1_ALPHA (KNIGHT) #1: Mon
Nov 6 19:38:51 MET 1995
cracauer@knight.wavedata.de:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/KNIGHT i386
work/scsh-0.4.0(knight)11:11:24% uptime
11:11AM up 2048 days, 44 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.13, 0.09, 0.08
work/scsh-0.4.0(knight)11:11:48%
:-/
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Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de>
BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany