Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:44:49 +0100 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: Chad Marshall <cmarshall@ahm-inc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uptime 2 years! Message-ID: <20081010034449.GA4299@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <2F5A85A9-3C1C-4328-9D4C-8722B3FDB2A1@ahm-inc.com> References: <DAC3662D-4B24-4986-87C3-7113A070A575@ahm-inc.com> <20081008223925.GB97321@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <2F5A85A9-3C1C-4328-9D4C-8722B3FDB2A1@ahm-inc.com>
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On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 06:00:38PM -0700, Chad Marshall wrote: > > No Problem, I figured that there are other systems out there with a > longer uptime. I have this server as a postfix/courier-imap/ > squirrelmail (60+ accounts and 30-40 forwards) mailserver with apache/ > php/mysql. Also use it as a slave authoritative nameserver for over > 100 zones (one zone with a 60sec TTL on a high volume production > website) as well. Plus use it as a primary nameserver for our entire > office (300+ workstations). I was lazy with it (Upgrading or > Replacing) and when it hit a year, I decided to hold off doing > anything with it as I wanted to see how long I could let it go. It's > a celeron 2.4ghz server with 512m Ram and has been a champ server in > it's performance and stability. I use CentOS for most of my other > systems and find that as easy as it is for administration and > upgrading, it lacks FreeBSD's performance. With the memory leaks that > CentOS has, I usually have to end up restarting the machine(s). With > FreeBSD I can just restart the services, and got my memory back and > reduce the amount of swap being used. I'm glad to hear that your machine is "busy" and doing useful work, the uptime I pointed to was non-Internet facing IIRC. I'm also interested to hear that CentOS "...lacks FreeBSD performance." Statistics never tell the whole story - real world usage does. Your observations will help to encourage our developers to further greater efforts! ;) When I went from RH to FreeBSD-4.3, the difference in performance as a desktop user was noticeable but that was a few years ago. > > Regardless of the first email I got back (Which was a little rude), I > will continue to run this server as long as I can and monitor the > security risks using DenyHosts and other security measures. > > Thanks, > Don't necessarily take posts on this list as rude or offensive. From my experience of reading this list, there is quite a lot of misunderstanding due to cultural/language problems or people thinking something was a slight even if none was intended by the original poster. Or somebody might be just having a bad day (it happens to all of us). This list is open to everyone & only represents the FreeBSD project in that the majority who post here use FreeBSD (from newbies to kernel hackers). Do keep on using FreeBSD & promoting it's use - no point in cutting off your nose to spite your face! Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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