Hi Dariusz, On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 03:54:13AM +0100, Dariusz Suchojad wrote: > Willy Tarreau wrote: > > >>What would you consider a good indicator of its reliability? Would > >>running flawlessly for a week straight be enough of testing? > > > >The fact that it runs a lot longer than previous run is a natural > >indicator of reliability. However it's not an indicator of correctness. > > I sure agree that it isn't any proof of its correctness but I can only > say that it's been running for more than 40 hours now and I don't see > any problems. I'll spare you the details of how many times the backend > servers crashed in that time ;-)
OK so now I'm confident that it is the 31-bit mode that triggers the problem. > > Whatever we spot, I'll keep in mind that we can get it to crash on > > your machine in 31-bit mode. If ever I come across a vicious bug > > that could explain that, I'd be happy to ask you to give it a try. > > And I'll be happy to give it a go if I only still have access to that > platform. Just in case you ever need it, you can run Debian (or, I > imagine, any other distribution which supports s390/s390x) under the > Hercules VM, here's a very nice HOWTO > http://www.josefsipek.net/docs/s390-linux/hercules-s390.html. I haven't > tried using HAProxy on it though but I guess there shouldn't be any issues. Oh I've never heard of this VM. That's excellent. And Josef has put up a very nice howto ! I'll probably try it someday, at least to satisfy my curiosity :-) Cheers, Willy
