From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 20 18:36:19 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E0D916A46B for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:36:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from askbill@conducive.net) Received: from conducive.net (conducive.org [203.194.153.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0625E13C45A for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:36:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from askbill@conducive.net) Received: from cm218-253-81-177.hkcable.com.hk ([218.253.81.177]:60429 helo=pb.local) by conducive.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1IjJBD-0000F4-PC for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:36:11 +0000 Message-ID: <471A4A9B.2000703@conducive.net> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:36:11 -0400 From: =?UTF-8?B?6Z+T5a625qiZIEJpbGwgSGFja2Vy?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: which version to install for next 2-3 years? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:36:19 -0000 syle ishere wrote: > I have a coloed box, OS on their now is ancient redhat 9.0, was thinking > about new SMP support and mysql speed advancements in 7.0. I'd just hate > to install 6.2 on it right now and thats way it stays for next 2-3 years > if 7.0 is stable enough to use right now. I threw away freebsd boxes on > 4.x branches because of SMP issues of it only using 1 processor for > mysql etc, but I see alot has changed again. Server is a dell 2650, 8 > gigs of ram, dual 3.2ghz xeon cpu's, 6 scsi drives. I use this box > mainly for apache/php, mysql, qmail,bind, perl and asterisk c > development time to time. > > If I download latest snapshot, cvsup latest 7release and just make world > etc on it, would it be alright? I see the new scheduler for 7.0 had some > nice benchmarks for mysql. > > Dan. > YMMV - you'll have to test with your mix of apps under your level and type of load. As always... I wouldn't discount 6.X, either - it has been rock-solid on a pair of Core D dual core, Tyan MB, AMD-64 and on a Xeon, HP MB as i386 since well before going 'gold'. With the newer Core-2 Quad-core, we expect to bite the bullet and go into production this week with 7-BETA1, if only 'coz there is so much new silicon in the channel that 7 already handles well and 6.X simply predated. Roast Penguin for Thanksgiving dinner should also save the cost of the other kind of turkey... We'll lift a glass to a very hardworking team of coders... Thanks folks! Bill Hacker