“RNG broken for last 4 months”

Re:“RNG broken for last 4 months” by X-Istence on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @01:56PM (#9064211)

Apparently NetFlix follows -CURRENT.

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Re:“RNG broken for last 4 months” by barkingcat on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @03:39PM (#9064800)

Even if someone says they do, I don't believe it. As someone who runs -CURRENT on vm's and physical hardware, it's not stable to do anything aside from development and testing on it, and it's not meant to be stable as well on purpose.

Unless Netflix enjoys filesystem wipes, file corruptions, and extremely reduced performance due to kernel level debugging flags that are enabled by default (and often can't be disabled due to ongoing development efforts), then they are not running -CURRENT. Remember, -CURRENT runs slowly because of debugging code!!

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Re:“RNG broken for last 4 months” by emaste on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @03:35PM (#9064778)

There's a lot of public evidence of NetFlix's use of FreeBSD and their desire to generally stay up-to-date. I'm not aware of any credible statement that they're actually on -CURRENT though, and even if they were at some point they may not have updated since then.

They are heavily involved in FreeBSD development and I'm sure they're keeping on top of developments in -CURRENT, but I believe they are not using affected versions anywhere in production.

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Re:“RNG broken for last 4 months” by bsdimp on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @07:20PM (#9066182)

You can find the following slides from BSDCan 2013 that state Netflix runs FreeBSD 9.

https://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/Netflix-BSDCan-20130515.p...

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Re:“RNG broken for last 4 months” by icantthinkofone on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @02:04PM (#9064267)

Define "follow". My company "follows" development but does not run production servers with it.

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Re:“RNG broken for last 4 months” by mikecb on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @02:16PM (#9064352)

I found only an unverified but specific claim in an ars forum thread that they run current on their CDN: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1262749&sta...

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Re:“RNG broken for last 4 months” by X-Istence on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @03:24PM (#9064717)

This was a comment I pulled off my Twitter timeline. Hence the apparently.

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Re:“RNG broken for last 4 months” by tptacek on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @03:44PM (#9064823)

Same.

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Re:“RNG broken for last 4 months” by bsdimp on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @07:19PM (#9066176)

Netflix has said publicly that they run FreeBSD 10 stable. Here's a slide deck from 2013 that says they were running FreeBSD 9 at the time.

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