In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So, I think it *IS* possible to make FreeBSD sufficiently bug-free that
> people become 'surprised' when they are able to crash a box running it.
FYI - Part of the reason that _I_ jumped onto the FreeBSD bandwagon
(not that long ago) was that FreeBSD was advertised as being basically
uncrashable.
As you might imagine, I was rather disappointed to learn that the
``never crashes'' claims that I had read (on www.freebsd.org?) were
not always true in practice... at least not on the heavily-stressed
2.2.8 system that I was running awhile back. (That system has now
been taken out of service for reasons entirely unrelated to the OS.)
Having said that however, I guess that I should also clarify that
the crashes I had been experiencing with that 2.2.8 system might
perhaps have been easily solved (at the time) if it had not been
for an unfortunate combination of factors (i.e. swap partition
having been allocated too small, more memory being added to the
system) that made it impossible for me to get any sort of a system
crash dump to analyze.
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