Dave,

I think it is a pretty safe, low risk to install.  We didn't find a
single regression problem in our testing of the enhancement.

However, if you run the CI with a NM stack size with little room for
expansion, and you use recursive user functions, you can run into CI
stack
overflow and the process (not system!) will abort.  We didn't find stack
overflows in testing regurlar, non-user functions.

HTH,
 Jeff

> What do the wise ones thing of the wisdom/folly of testing 
> beta patches on a production machine ?
> 
> I ask because I am interested in the user function patches 
> (mpemxp9 & mpemxq0 ?), but we only have one 3000, no separate 
> crash-and-burn box.
> 
> Related questions:
> How safe does HP think those patches are?  Can anyone at 
> least promise they won't crash the system ?
> What are the odds of these patches coming off beta anytime soon ?

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