Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 10:50:53 +0200 (SAT) From: Graham Wheeler <gram@cdsec.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: re: FreeBSD stability Message-ID: <199803200850.KAA04433@cdsec.com>
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> > This may sound a bit out of topic but I was browsing > the pages of other Unix clone and they point out that > their main development machine (delivers 100,000 > e-mails per day, hosts the master FTP site which is > accessed by the mirrors every day and is the "home" > system for their 200 developers that compile, > upload and download software) has been up for > three months. > > They also tell the reader that another machine > running the same Unix clone had been up for 458 days. While it isn't quite comparable, our firewall software runs on FreeBSD. In December I upgraded a client from v1.x to v2.0. The client's site has about 1000 users behind the firewall, who seem to spend most of their time browsing the web and sending e-mail. I was pleased to see that the v1.x software (running on FreeBSD 2.1.5 at that stage) had been up and running for about 8 months since the last reboot. I don't think that that is unusual for our firewall sites, either. But then, that, plus its excellent performance (esp. networking) is why we chose to use FreeBSD in the first place (and quickly abandoned our initial flirtation with the `other' UNIX clone...) We have other clients who have thrown out Firewall-1 and replaced it with our firewall running on cheaper hardware because using F-1 their network utilisation was so poor. I'm not claiming credit for this; it's thanks to the FreeBSD team. When Slackware '96 was released, I committed the heresy of replacing my FreeBSD with Slackware (I wanted those cool Linuxy things like DOS emulation). Just after installing, I ran elm. It took so long to load up my mailbox that I reinstalled FreeBSD the same day... As we say in South Africa, `Viva, FreeBSD, Viva!'. -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cdsec.com Citadel Data Security Phone: +27(21)23-6065/6/7 Internet/Intranet Network Specialists Mobile: +27(83)-253-9864 Firewalls/Virtual Private Networks Fax: +27(21)24-3656 Data Security Products WWW: http://www.cdsec.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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