From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 30 23:32:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 704ED16A41C for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:32:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk) Received: from mail.helenmarks.co.uk (mail.helenmarks.co.uk [82.68.196.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A05143D1D for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:32:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.helenmarks.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434A8222402; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 00:32:58 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.helenmarks.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.helenmarks.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19948-08; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 00:32:49 +0100 (BST) Received: from egg.helenmarks.co.uk (egg.helenmarks.co.uk [192.168.15.3]) by mail.helenmarks.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57DC0222404; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 00:32:49 +0100 (BST) From: Dominic Marks Organization: GoodforBusiness.co.uk To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 00:34:58 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050630164529.D65760@neptune.atopia.net> <20050630213541.GA26335@mail.media4u.pl> <20050630175234.J67125@neptune.atopia.net> In-Reply-To: <20050630175234.J67125@neptune.atopia.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507010034.58982.dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> X-Virus-Scanned: By ClamAV 0.85.1 Cc: Matt Juszczak , Maciej Wierzbicki Subject: Re: Two Options: which to choose? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:32:59 -0000 On Thursday 30 June 2005 22:53, Matt Juszczak wrote: > > After changing to PF I did not notice single crash for month > > (production servers with, sometimes, heavy load). > > > > I would try FreeBSD with PF anyway. Works perfectly. > > You say it didn't crash for a month, but then you say to try FreeBSD > with PF because it works perfectly. To me, a month of uptime isn't > perfectly. Can you elaborate? Is your machine still crashing even > though its taking a month instead of a few days like it did > previously? Could you not use pfsync to mitigate the problem (at least partially)? As for your original question, I think its less work to change your hardware to something you know works than changing operating systems. Why not use single CPU machines for this? > Thanks, > > Matt > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Dominic GoodforBusiness.co.uk I.T. Services for SMEs in the UK.