From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 26 17:05:27 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4980F16A419 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:05:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darkfalz@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E5D813C43E for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:05:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darkfalz@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so1358159nzf for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:05:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=EVXYtXVKSwRZsAVJyHVvRmLwm/Rjz7mNkLCb2usv37w=; b=IKrU114G4UUdHSK3pRiWfsRg1au7dBTsaR3Ndw7H0op3iMKsLmeLX4lQKeWHaSLdXFIvR202mshdh1AeNCzK//cfxHcVbs50pywuooKQqdi7KmHobllRvfF9dkIsxJskuCZaw1xw/qgqAghZY37dfAucLMvUnYl3TYxd2HLX+oQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=AFcU//UjczT0bRHYsFaASbjORkwO2YMJIaD4arF5dWAiq9J9ikRBKO/3m6Y7uQ62gPMxtOYDxoncyvOzoeH6N9jn0GySoe25ZKR/0DAdPJGpt9IZl/14/iIYLZpWHUs3H39zCmz87tIuJxf+FezTycA5scNepuv8p0rjzp6SQu0= Received: by 10.114.156.1 with SMTP id d1mr1249500wae.1190826322130; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:05:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.25.12 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:05:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:05:22 -0500 From: falz Sender: darkfalz@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <46FA8669.2030508@wallnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46FA8669.2030508@wallnet.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: f68a2b3ede5550d4 Subject: Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:05:27 -0000 On 9/26/07, Tim Kellers wrote: > Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer > Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production > environment? > > My old Dell 2400 hardware is quickly expiring and I need to replace it > with something that will support FreeBSD 6.2 and have enough horsepower > to host a substantial (50 or so) number of concurrent Moodle logins. > The database (pgsql) is already on another server so I won't be chewing > up server resources by hosting a database, too. We have many many 2950, 1950, 860, etc servers running FreeBSD. 6.2 without issue. Many of which are in a fairly taxing environment (webmail cluster with 25k users), as well as other purposes. I've only run across one issue, and it was on an earlier one. This was related more to the raid controller than anything, and required some 'camcontrol' setting to be changed: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-February/033071.html However, I wouldnt worry about that unless you have a problem. --falz