And this is where solution is known and is being developed albeit slowly.
On Apr 9, 2009, at 7:36 AM, Cameron Gutman wrote: > To clarify what Timo said (I talked with him earlier today) it is not > crashing in the network stack. It is crashing in fastfat and Cc. > > On Apr 8, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Aleksey Bragin <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> It's not that bad now, actually that's why I say about starting all >> this compatibility/whatever thing. We know almost all "strange" >> crashes, all of them are bugzilled. Idle time is great too - e.g. >> tower usually runs ReactOS for at least a day in a virtual machine. >> Bad things happen when it comes to certain areas. Like networking in >> your example. Or filesystem (but now it's greatly improved). >> >> I fully agree - stability is a must, but to have a plan, we need to >> see what issues we do have now. And to get them - get test software >> which runs good and could simulate us a real usage case. >> >> >> >> On Apr 8, 2009, at 11:24 PM, Timo Kreuzer wrote: >> >>> One of the current issues that makes ReactOS completely useless for >>> real stuff is not that it cannot run app X or game Y or doesn't >>> support my network adapter. The most annoying thing is it's >>> instability. >>> You have no chance to use any of the great features, because most >>> likely reactos crashes before you are at that point. >>> Try downloading something that is > 300MB, or installing a bigger >>> application... good luck :( >>> It just crashes way too often. We all know our crappy Cc and yes, I >>> know win32k also crashes from time to time. >>> And after a crash it's quite likely that things don't work anymore >>> (for example downloader) and you need to reinstall reactos. If we >>> could fix that, the system would look much better than it does >>> today. >>> Before a 0.4, we should start a stability offensive. >>> It would also improve developing, because the crashes can really be >>> a pain when it comes to testing something. Excessive testing is >>> more or less impossible, because of all the crashes. >>> >>> Just my 2 cents, >>> Timo >>> _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
