[nycbug-talk] [OT] FreeBSD 5.4 crashing?

[Matt Juszczak]

> I'm basically saying that it wouldn't surprise me if your boxes stayed up for 
> a *VERY* long time under load, now that you've gotten ipf out of the picture- 
> (very few people are maintaining it on FreeBSD, to my understanding).

I just did a flood of mail to the machine, 20,000 messages in 10 minutes. 
It handled it fine.  Usually, the mail server would crash over a long 
period of time, but I figure if there was anything seriously wrong that 
mail flood might have exploited it :)

I really hope ipf was the problem.  The unfortunate thing is now I'm 
running -STABLE on two servers where I probably dont need to .... however, 
-STABLE is pretty stable for the most part, from what I've seen, so I dont 
think I have to worry about that.

Then, when 5.5-RELEASE comes out, all will be in synch again.

-Ma