From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 3 14:05:44 2006 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 05CCD16A407 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 14:05:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [65.205.34.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A9A943D49 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 14:05:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (unknown [192.168.1.3]) by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A0C4B827 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 10:05:42 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <281C4418-D0A0-4AAF-8C06-F6A4D5AC5571@syz.com> References: <281C4418-D0A0-4AAF-8C06-F6A4D5AC5571@syz.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; boundary=Apple-Mail-18--317834673; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" Message-Id: <325AF3FC-8B6B-4215-AF16-9026CD1ECF5D@khera.org> From: Vivek Khera Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 10:05:40 -0400 To: freebsd-stable X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Which FreeBSD is the most stable for Dell PowerEdge 2850 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: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 14:05:44 -0000 --Apple-Mail-18--317834673 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On Jun 30, 2006, at 8:08 PM, Dan Charrois wrote: > In any case, the server is used heavily all year except July, so > this is my time of year to take things apart, update software, > etc. And so I'm wondering - what is the recommended version of > FreeBSD I should be running if stability is of the utmost > importance? Should I migrate to the 6.x stream? Is it relatively > solid? Or should I stay with 5.4 for now? I've seen some messages > posted periodically from various people running into problems, I don't have any 2850's but the 1850 I have has been running 6.0 since the BETA1, and last night just upgraded it to 6.1. No issues. The PERC 4e/Si card is phenominally fast on this system (running 2 disk RAID1). I'd recommend you to run 6.1 as it is stable on all of my Dell systems that run it (and I'm migrating the older FreeBSD boxes to 6.1 as time permits). If you already have > 1 CPU, you might as well leave hyperthreading off. There are cases where it degenerates performance rather than enhance it. As for mysql version, "no comment" :-) --Apple-Mail-18--317834673--