From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 7 09:52:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0DE837B401 for ; Wed, 7 May 2003 09:52:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from totem.fix.no (totem.fix.no [80.91.36.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A30443FA3 for ; Wed, 7 May 2003 09:52:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anders@totem.fix.no) Received: by totem.fix.no (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E0E152024D; Wed, 7 May 2003 18:53:07 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 18:53:07 +0200 From: Anders Nordby To: David Landgren Message-ID: <20030507165307.GA2796@totem.fix.no> References: <3EB7C160.207@landgren.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EB7C160.207@landgren.net> X-PGP-Key: http://anders.fix.no/pgp/ X-PGP-Key-FingerPrint: 1E0F C53C D8DF 6A8F EAAD 19C5 D12A BC9F 0083 5956 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Options available for using >4Gb RAM on x86 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 16:52:22 -0000 Hi, I run a rather large Squid server on a Proliant DL 380 G2 (it also uses ciss) with 4 GB of RAM. I recently upgraded to FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE and Squid 2.5, and I put in some write cache for the RAID controller (BIOS verifies this by claiming it now has Compaq SmartArray 5i+). I've been running this setup since around 4.6-RELEASE and it's been performing well (currently the record is 500 hits per second with only a small penalty to the average service time) and it is as stable as it can get - I've had no unexpected crashes or problems. I may add another box into this for redundancy, but otherwise I sleep well at night without it too. PS: I run in web accelerator mode, and I have a fxp NIC. A stable PCI NIC is cheap however, so if the bge driver doesn't work out for you a temporary solution could be to put in an extra NIC while the driver matures. PS2: I don't see a reason to upgrade to -current or 5.x as long as there is no RELENG_5, so I recommend to go with the latest 4.x RELEASE or with a recent -STABLE. Cheers, -- Anders.