Client 0.99 any good

[Milk]

Hi, just wanted to know if the 0.99 client 4 Linux is any good or if i should stay with the 0.98 version?
I think i read somewhere that its still a bit unstable?!?
i would hate to kill the 0.98 version cause seeing this 16160 seti-cru 20 19 27584 26M 1096 R N 0 98.4 21.6 65916m ghclient.x
looks really satisfying

[kirek]

I've been running it on my firewall box for a while now and no problems:

kirek@darkstar:~/ghclient099_linux$ uptime

11:45pm up 7 days, 2:26, 3 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00



Last shutdown was because of one big ass storm that rolled through. I need to buy a UPS. :) It was up for 14days b4 that no crashes. (rebooted cause of a storm again) *&%$% weather. Before that I don't remember how long it was up.

Anyways I guess I am saying that I have not had any problems with it yet. It is entirely possibe that I am just lucky.



Your decision. Hope this helps. :cool:



-kirek

[dnar]

The 0.98 Linux client had two bugs:
1. A memory allocation bug that is now fixed in 0.99. (This was also true of the Windows client).
2. A main loop error checking bug (This remains in the 0.99 Linux client).

0.99 still has bug #2 and Stefan has identified the cause. It will be fixed in 1.00.

0.99 is more reliable than 0.98, but in your case, looks like you have had a very good run with 0.98.

[Bruce]

Originally posted by dnar
The 0.98 Linux client had two bugs:
. . . .

Not being a linux person myself, I could be wrong, but I thought there was a compatability problem depending on what version of library you were running.

[dnar]

Originally posted by Bruce


Not being a linux person myself, I could be wrong, but I thought there was a compatability problem depending on what version of library you were running.
Yup. The client is linked against glibc 2.2 and therefore will not run with OLD distros such as RedHat 5 and 6.

The actual library dependancies are:


[wayne@Criten gah]$ ldd ghclient.x
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40026000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40049000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40060000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
[wayne@Criten gah]$ ldd filter.x
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40026000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40049000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)