From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 1 15:36:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cci.tol.itesm.mx (cci.tol.itesm.mx [132.254.97.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 882C937B422 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 15:36:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from madd@tecdigital.net) Received: (qmail 13354 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2001 22:35:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO midgar) (madd@127.0.0.1) by 127.0.0.1 with SMTP; 1 Jun 2001 22:35:02 -0000 Message-ID: <004501c0eaeb$3f395530$0a00a8c0@midgar> From: "Mario Doria" To: Cc: Subject: SMP Performance Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 17:35:52 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have a working SMP machine that I want to migrate to FreeBSD. Currently it is running Linux kernel 2.4.5. The machine is a dual processor Pentium III @ 700 MHZ, with 768 MB in RAM (Dell PowerEdge 2400). I want to install FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE and enable SMP. My problem is that I've read about rock-solid performance and of very poor performance with the same FreeBSD. I want to know about how stable (from other persons' experience), how fast is it going to work (compared with linux) and your personal opinions about this. The programs that will run in this server are My SQL, Apache, QMail, STunnel, OpenSSL, Samba 2.2.0 and OpenSSH. I read a column by Moshe Bar comparing Linux's kernel 2.4.0 and FreeBSD (http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20010130S0010) 4.1.1, in that column, FreeBSD emerged as a winner. Taking that column into account, I'm leaning over to the BSD fence, but I want to be sure that this change is for the better. Thanks, Mario Doria To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message