From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 3 16:37:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA27531 for current-outgoing; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 16:37:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA27508; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 16:37:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.com [204.244.210.252] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xdPGx-00077d-00; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 16:36:07 -0800 Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 16:36:04 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Kevin Day cc: Satoshi Asami , dyson@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, grog@lemis.com, FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? In-Reply-To: <199712032343.RAA28920@home.dragondata.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Kevin Day wrote: > on a production system. I needed SMP support, and couldn't wait, and didn't ... > A -current machine is handling www.mk4.com (2,000,000+ hits per month), > several shell accounts, and other heavy uses. (and it's running rc564 in the Did you need SMP support because you needed it for your particular hardware, or did you need SMP because uni-processor hardware isn't fast enough? 2 million hits a month is peanuts these days. I have a UP system that takes 30 million a month, plus a million e-mails, and it is barely at 50% utilization. I'd prefer getting multiple servers than run a risky SMP release on a single server. And no, 2.2 is not getting old yet. Remember most 24x7 sites only do upgrades twice a year (or less), and 2.2.5 hasn't been out that long. Tom