Stability of 2.2.2?

[Rob Siemborski]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Jules Agee wrote:

> Would you mind briefly describing the problems you had with 2.1 stable,
> and which version you were using (2.1.14/15/16...)? I am planning an
> upgrade and I expect to use 2.1.16, unless someone has a pretty
> compelling reason to go with 2.2.2. I don't need any of the new 2.2
> features. Stability is by far the most important factor.

2.2 has better process accounting in the master process.  There are
limited circumstances where processes die and master will lose track of
the number of available workers.  This is mostly true in
resource-constrained enviornments or when admins start killing processes
randomly ;)

This is the "major" stability improvement in 2.2.

-Rob

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