Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:35:59 +0000 From: Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com> To: Nathan Vidican <nvidican@wmptl.com> Cc: sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD viability on Sparc platform Message-ID: <70e8236f0511231435w264f99d6va78ae97b042af84@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4384D20F.7080706@wmptl.com> References: <4384D20F.7080706@wmptl.com>
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On 11/23/05, Nathan Vidican <nvidican@wmptl.com> wrote: > Been a (long) while since I've been following the port at all, where is > FreeBSD/sparc anyhow? Looking to replace a server here which is currently > running FreeBSD/i386 on dual PIII 550's, the machine is heavily loaded an= d > stability/redundancy are key but budget is a concern. For the price I can= get > decent configurations of Sun Ultra and Ultra II powered sparc servers wit= h > redundant power for cheap... but can I reliably run FreeBSD on them, or a= m I > stuck with Solaris. Really, would Solaris not be a better option anyhow g= iven > it's their hardware, or is FreeBSD stable enough on the platform yet for = production? > > The machine is basically pure mysql server, and does minimal routing accr= oss two > network interfaces. I know this could just as easily be done in Solaris, = just > curious as to FreeBSD/sparc viability. I'm looking at some E420R's with q= ty 4 > 450mhz Sparc II cpus, and 4GB ram each. > > Any info/opinions/concerns/etc appreciated. I have at home this nice Ultra 5 at 400Mhz with 256MB ram with 2 Intel fxp on it. It used to run 5.4 for months and only went down due to power failure. Upgraded to 6.0 and again only goes down when the power fails. Got to get one of those UPS thingies :) I'm using it as a router: nat, pf, dhcp Also runs NetMRG with the needed MySQL to monitor my switch and the machine itself. -- Joao Barros
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