Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 12:38:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> To: questions list FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: a freebsd testimonial Message-ID: <Pine.FBS.3.93.960927120639.19048J-100000@dingo.enc.edu>
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Hi,
I hope nobody minds, but I'm just _so_ happy with the stability of my
FreeBSD servers of late that I feel that I must share this with whoever's
listening. (I guess, as my wife claims, that I really am a nerd ;-)
Perhaps this may serve as a message of hope for those who may be
currently battling stability problems.
Anyhow, one of my main servers happily tells me:
> uptime
12:10PM up 139 days, 13:37, 10 users, load averages: 0.02, 0.04, 0.00
This box runs FreeBSD 2.1-stable (circa 3/16/96) and serves as
Web server (www.enc.edu)
email server (pop, imap, and telnet access)
NIS master for ~900 users (and rising)
DNS server
various other tasks
Other info, for the curious:
ASUS P55TP4XE motherboard, 90 MHz Pentium, 512k pburst cache
64 MB RAM (60ns)
Acculogic PCIport/20 Fast/Wide SCSI controller
(NCR 53c825 based)
1 gig FAST SCSI2 drive
4-gig SCSI-2 FAST/WIDE drive (Seagate Hawk)
Digital PCI Ethernet board
I used to have loads of problems with this box. The following steps
brought it to its current state:
1. New motherboard (was some flukey SiS-chipset no-name board)
2. New SCSI controller (was a noname board, same NCR chipset,
but generated scsi bus errors and lousy performance)
3. A realization about quotas: I'd heard somewhere that
its a good idea to turn the quota system off (quotaoff)
before changing a user's quotas (edquota). I'd been
doing this in my adduser script and whenever I added
a user the system would crash shortly thereafter.
Apparantly some nasty system bug was being triggered.
Not toggling the quota system on and off before using
edquota got rid of a good portion of my system crashes.
#1 and #2 took care of the rest.
Anyone have any ideas why this (the quota thing) was
happening?
A lesson: Insist on quality hardware!! (and note:
expensive and/or big-name does not always mean
quality)
Anyway, I'm a _very_ satisfied FreeBSD user. All you FreeBSD
contributors: you do _great_ work!
Thanks,
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Information Technology Services remember... and I've learned that
Eastern Nazarene College we've all forgot..." - King's X
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