Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:39:50 -0800 From: ray@redshift.com To: "Olaf Greve" <ogreve@millennics.com>,"Scott Long" <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: ogreve@millennics.com, amd64@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD 5.4 or 6 for DB server with 9500S-4 ? Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20051129083950.00a82848@pop.redshift.com> In-Reply-To: <FCEOJPCMAKOIPHMHFBGDIEFEDCAA.ogreve@millennics.com> References: <3.0.1.32.20051125123128.00a61c88@pop.redshift.com>
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At 05:35 PM 11/29/2005 +0100, Olaf Greve wrote: | Hi all, | | First off: thanks a lot for the most excellent replies and opinions; no | worries they won't cause me to hang myself. ;) | | At this very moment I'm over at the client's site and we're assembling the | machine, so this message will be short for now. As I feared, I'm still | Internet-less at home though it was actually due to Versatel being | physically unable to come over due to excessive high snowfall. Great. Just | when you need Internet most there's no chance that I'll have it at home | again for the next few days...:P | | Either way: just like I'm doing now, I'll make some selective print-outs of | the various things mentioned in the threads about this topic and also of | some of the FreeBSD pages (like the one about the custom kernel). All in all | that should at the very least provide me with a proper roadmap. | | I'll definitely keep you all up to date (both on and off list) as to the | progress of what'll happen with the installation, and as I have precious few | hours over here today, I think I shall first stick with several standard | things. | | The strategy I'll perform will be: | | 1-Install FreeBSD 6.0 Release (I'll give it a shot and if it doesn't work | I'll fall back to 5.4). | 2-Update the ports tree. | 3-Install MySQL 4.1.x from the ports (I'll build it from there, after | checking/tuning the makefile). | 4-Build a custom kernel. | 5-Import the DB dump. | 6-Tune the DB. | | If I'll have enough time over here, I'll swap nrs. 3 and 4. | | O.k., thanks so far and I'll keep you guys informed! Thanks a lot for the | excellent pointers, they were most useful in making the choices between the | various versions etc. I hope sticking with 6.0 is indeed a good idea (I | normally too tend to use Ray's philosophy of sticking with "non .0 | versions"), but from what I gather the 6.0 version has already been pounded | on a lot, so I'll give it a go. :) | | Cheers! | Olafo Hi Olafo, I'm sure 6.0 is fine :-) BTW, you might want to tweak /etc/make.conf before you compile MySQL and the kernel, etc. There are a couple of things you can add in there that might speed the machine up a bit. Although until you get it running, it might be better off not to introduce more variables :) Ray
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