On Jun 28 02:45 PM, Matt Juszczak wrote: > >Either, I think in general SMP is tough to get stable. People with > >more experience will hopefully reply and explain in more detail. For > >now I, personally, would disable smp on freebsd just to keep it > >stable. > > > I just dont know if this will keep it stable or not. Others are reporting > that the bug is in ttwakeup and the other is that its a bug in IPF, which > I currently use.... > > Thats why I'm at a dilemma right now. Do I keep things as they are, turn > SMP off on FreeBSD 5.4, and risk problems in the future? Or do I switch > to OpenBSD now, hope it works, and have a stable solution while FreeBSD > becomes more stable.
What's wrong with FreeBSD 4.11? You said it's stable for you. OpenBSD is going to be a big change for you on short notice with little testing. Everyone says the 4.x branch is much more stable than the 5.x branch anyway. Matt