Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:56:16 -0600 (CST) From: Brennan Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> To: Vlad <tmd@tmd.df.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: my server uptime Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101181652240.14347-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101181710590.39971-100000@tmd.df.ru>
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I did reboot for the new kernels, but after I had 3.4-STABLE in place I
left it for 330 days before the new hardware replaced it. Now I hope to
simply let it sit and stay at 4.2-STABLE for some time. In a couple years
I may upgrade the old server and put FreeBSD 5.2-STABLE on it. I will
like having a threaded kernel. The developers are doing great work.
And thanks to having a nicely updated server I will be able to continue
re-learning C. So far I have made some basic C binaries which can talk to
the mysql database server. I hope to learn enough so I could one day help
the developers... or maybe a maintainer for a couple ports.
There is still yet much to learn.
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)
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Vlad wrote:
> how did you manage to upgrade w/o rebooting? you have to re-initialize the
> kernel.
>
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Brennan Stehling wrote:
>
> > 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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