From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 26 5:44:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96ED237B401 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 05:44:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from gate21.fw.porsche.de (gate23.fw.porsche.de [193.174.9.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F031543EA9 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 05:44:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perisa@porsche.de) Received: (qmail 19775 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2002 13:53:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wuxin011.ibd.porsche.de) (141.36.65.1) by 193.197.149.150 with SMTP; 26 Nov 2002 13:53:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 7144 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2002 13:41:50 -0000 Received: from beastie.ibd.porsche.de (HELO porsche.de) (141.36.3.29) by smtp4cli.ibd.porsche.de with SMTP; 26 Nov 2002 13:41:50 -0000 Message-ID: <3DE37C08.2090801@porsche.de> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:50:00 +0100 From: Marc Perisa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020709 X-Accept-Language: en, de-de, es-es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maarten de Vries Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM's X335 series References: <005901c2954c$0d229ae0$490d3a91@nosinetmrtn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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