Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:50:00 +0100 From: Marc Perisa <perisa@porsche.de> To: Maarten de Vries <mdv@unsavoury.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM's X335 series Message-ID: <3DE37C08.2090801@porsche.de> References: <005901c2954c$0d229ae0$490d3a91@nosinetmrtn>
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Hi Maarten, Maarten de Vries wrote: > Hi, > > We're planning on purchasing a bunch of IBM X335 servers, equipped with 4 P4 > CPU's en 4Gb of memory. These should run either Apache plus Tomcat|Orion or > Mysql|Postgresql. > Since we're looking into using FreeBSD instead of RedHat on these systems, > I'd be grateful if you could provide me with some firsthand experiences. > > - how well does FreeBSD install on IBM's X335 or X300 series in general? It installs on the X345 without problems. But it was just a test installation. The box went productive with Linux because of company policy. *sigh* > - does it cope well with this many CPU's and this much RAM? It should. I had never FreeBSD running with more than 2 CPUs and 1 GB RAM. But others had. > - how well does Java perform on FBSD (I hear Java will part of the > basesystem)? I don't know. > - how does threading work in FreeBSD? Is there something like 'clone' or > 'sproc'? > In general it is to say: If you can wait (it sounds like the project is new and you are looking still for the infrastructure) another 4 month FreeBSD 5.1 will be out. 5.x brings better SMP and threading support than 4.x - and hopefully from 5.1 on it will reach the known -STABLE stability. 5.0 DP2 looks nice - but I haven't tested it under load yet. As for "How to code?" I can not help you. Hope that helps Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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