From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 23 20:40:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sparc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C176616A41F for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:40:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77C2B43D53 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:40:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D5CF1A3C29; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:40:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 87A3851592; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:40:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:40:27 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Nathan Vidican Message-ID: <20051123204027.GA5819@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <4384D20F.7080706@wmptl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4384D20F.7080706@wmptl.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD viability on Sparc platform X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:40:28 -0000 --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:33:19PM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote: > Been a (long) while since I've been following the port at all, where is= =20 > FreeBSD/sparc anyhow? Looking to replace a server here which is currently= =20 > running FreeBSD/i386 on dual PIII 550's, the machine is heavily loaded an= d=20 > stability/redundancy are key but budget is a concern. For the price I can= =20 > get decent configurations of Sun Ultra and Ultra II powered sparc servers= =20 > with redundant power for cheap... but can I reliably run FreeBSD on them,= =20 > or am I stuck with Solaris. Really, would Solaris not be a better option= =20 > anyhow given it's their hardware, or is FreeBSD stable enough on the=20 > platform yet for production? >=20 > The machine is basically pure mysql server, and does minimal routing=20 > accross two network interfaces. I know this could just as easily be done = in=20 > Solaris, just curious as to FreeBSD/sparc viability. I'm looking at some= =20 > E420R's with qty 4 450mhz Sparc II cpus, and 4GB ram each. It's generally pretty stable..but there are a couple of panics I run into on the sparc machines on 6.0. You may not see them depending on what you do. If stability is your main concern you should use an i386 or amd64 machine though, since those architectures are better maintained. Alternatively, you could use 5.4 which doesn't have those bugs, but performance is much lower than 6.0 on SMP machines. Kris --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDhNO7Wry0BWjoQKURAugGAKDHPt2fqPdUa2k2mPD7PzmLFIb60gCeNcsQ bF7O5pJzwIO16lMz6YKIEdo= =Py0p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK--