From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Aug 5 19:34:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA21864 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 19:34:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA21859 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 19:34:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id MAA02637; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 12:03:15 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708060233.MAA02637@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Compaq ProLiant systems -- problems? In-Reply-To: <199708060025.UAA20586@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Aug 5, 97 08:25:28 pm" To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 12:03:14 +0930 (CST) Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Garrett Wollman stands accused of saying: > My group is about to spend a substantial amount of money on some new > servers, and the Compaq ProLiant 2500 (#?) has been recommended to > us. These machines will, of course, run FreeBSD 2.2. Does anyone out > there have experience with these machines, and if so did you encounter > any problems that would keep us from being able to use them in > ``mission-critical'' applications (e.g., the Lab-wide mail, news, DNS, > print, and Kerberos servers)? If you're going to be spending a "substantial" amount of money, _demand_ a system on evaluation. This will let you pound it under your particular workload, which is the only really good test of a system 8) Having said that, check the mailing list archives, as I am sure that we have seen messages regarding these systems before. > -GAWollman -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[