From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 3 12:03:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA12848 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 12:03:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [204.178.32.161]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA12838 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 12:03:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA17426; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 15:10:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 15:10:34 -0500 (EST) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Steve Hovey cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux vs freebsd testimonial In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Since we've gotten along fairly well in our migration from Linux, I thought I'd share my experiences as well... We currently run on FBSD: 1 Shell/user www (was NetBSD 1.0) 1 DNS/mail/dialup auth/syslog (these two are sharing mail spool over NFS) 1 utility/backup/freebies 1 DNS/mail for seperate, wacky project 2 virt www servers (3 are still Linux) 2 co-locate www servers (www.firstview.com 3.6G/day, www.villagevoice.com) These have been the most trouble-free machines we've worked with. Some of the recent security problems were a bit tough (lots of cvsup-ing), but nothing compared to the nasty Slackware Linux Bug-o-the-month. The only reboots *any* of these machines have seen were intentional, which is something I just can't say about Linux. Performance is much better, and the "out of box" configuration is a lot more sensible than Slackware. A few of these machines really get beat on hard, and they just ask for more. We have to keep one Linux web server for compatibility with some odd sourceless C cgi's, but the other two will be history soon. Our news server is running Linux, but it's being replaced with a machine to be named "fridge" which will have 3 SCSI busses and 15 drives, and of course be running FBSD. I must say, this has made my job much easier. Linux is just too unpredictable when you don't have the time to play the "kernel-of-the-week" game. One of the Linux boxes still does the routine of freezing with no log entries or other hints; which is extremely frustrating. FBSD just seems like it was meant to be in a production environment... Thanks to all involved, Charles spork@super-g.com spork@inch.com On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Steve Hovey wrote: > > A few weeks ago, my single linux box fried. I replaced both the hard > drive (with an identicle one) and linux with freebsd 2.1.5. > > The machine runs majordomo, ftp, apache, and an irc server. > > The performance is way up there! Under linux it would frequently slug > down to a crawl. under FreeBSD it just keeps zipping along. > > There is a very definite noticable difference in response and load > handling. >