Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:50:55 -0600 (CST) From: Brennan Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: my server uptime Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101180925360.13390-100000@home.offwhite.net>
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I just took down a server yesterday and replaced it with a new one. It
was a basic server with a PII 350 processor and 96mb or RAM but I used it
for personal projects and other development work. I hosted many sites on
it.
I put the server in over 2 years ago at a really nice facility and that
was back with FreeBSD 3.1. I updated to 3.3, 3.4 and eventually
3.4-STABLE where it has been for a very long time. And I am happy to say
that I had it up for 330 days in a row, no reboots or crashes. That is a
personal best. And after using rsh to copy all of the data to the new
server I was back up in the time it took to reboot the new server with the
IP of the old server. I was very happy with how easy it is.
Now I have a new server in place with a PIII 550 and 256mb of memory and a
fast SCSI drive with a couple IDE drives for large data storage. This is
a much anticipated upgrade and it is running FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE, built
after a cvs sync a couple nights ago. My goal is to now leave the server
with that version of the kernel for over 330 days and not upgrade until it
is yet another major hardware upgrade.
I am quite pleased with FreeBSD. After each upgrade, with my old server,
I could immediately see the performance benefits with the changes to the
various patches to every part of the system.
But I am a little concerned. For a little over a month, actually since
the 4.2 RELEASE I have been doing a "make buildworld; make
installworld" after a cvs sync every couple of weeks and I have
experienced some instability. Actually, as my brother used X Windows on
it and found that it was crashing on him, so he may have just done the 3
finger salute to reboot it, like most typical users when they think their
computer is going down. So there is a little unknown with the new
server. Time will tell.
So the time came for me to install the new server and I simply stripped
out my sound card and voodoo3 video card and replaced it with an old video
card, good enough for a console in hopes that any problems may be
solved. Running XFree86 4.x may have been part of the problem. Any tips
will be very much welcome.
Ultimately, this new server adds increased performance and that should
help me with deveoping various applications I hope to release to CPAN and
the Apache group soon. I can also complete GreasyDaemon.com in hopes of
increasing it's usefulness and expanding it's search capabilities.
On that note, I am looking for a better search engine than htdig. I am
currently looking at udmsearch, and that seems like a good
alternative. It uses mysql and may allow me to do some direct searches on
my own. Any suggestions will be helpful. Once I have an improved search
engine I will be well on my way of contributing back to the community
which has supported me so well lately.
Brennan Stehling - software developer and system administrator
my projects:
home.offwhite.net (free personal hosting)
www.greasydaemon.com (bsd search)
beta.mymilwaukee.com (initial mockup)
beta.sncalumni.com (initial mockup)
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