From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 31 08:46:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA19459 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 08:46:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA19454 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 08:46:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id KAA27895; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:45:48 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199610311645.KAA27895@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Another data point in the daily panics... To: greg@uswest.net (Greg Rowe) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:45:48 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com In-Reply-To: <9610310835.ZM25213@nevis.oss.uswest.net> from "Greg Rowe" at Oct 31, 96 08:35:32 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have a number of News systems running 2.1.5 Release with absolutely no > problems. These systems range from anywhere between 8 and 20 gig of News spool > space. They all run INN and CCD. These systems are "rock solid". The difference > is that the hardware is all custom built based on advice found in these mailing > lists. If your serious about running a "production" FreeBSD server, don't skimp > on the hardware. Do some mailing list searches and find out what motherboard, > controllers, and drives work best for your application. Your hardware is > probably not what most folks on this list would consider using for a News > server based on the load the application places on the system. > > Greg > > On Oct 30, 6:57pm, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > Subject: Another data point in the daily panics... > > > > Ok > > > > I'm just now cleaning up from last night's panic on my 2.1.5 > > (now STABLE, not RELEASE) system. > > > > Recall, this is a 386DX-33, 8MEG, IDE controller, sio ports, running > > my news and mail and SL/IP connections. I run several stable news servers too (soon to be more)... Mr. Rivers seems to be running a "stress test from hell" configuration :-( ... JG