DragonFly users List (threaded) for 2008-03 DragonFly BSD
DragonFly users List (threaded) for 2008-03  Re: FreeBSD 7,
DragonFly's status  To: Dave Hayes <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx> From: Kris
Kennaway <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:03:25
+0100  Dave Hayes wrote:  Does an objective metric of stability
actually exist? ( If you say "uptime" I'll take that as a "no"
;) ) If it does, I would really like to learn what that metric
is. Do you know of any current low-project-bias work that has
been done in this area?  Thanks in advance. :)  It's easiest to
define "stability" by "lack of instability", i.e. "system does
not crash no matter what you do to it".  The best method I know
to evaluate this is by brute force (other techniques like static
code analysis and formal model checking can help). You have to
try really hard to put the system through all kinds of bizarre
contortions in the workloads you care about (which is
"everything" for a general OS developer) until you find
something that breaks. Then fix it