From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 17:16:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1AD316A4CA for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:16:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from akachler@telcom.net) Received: from mail.telcom.net (mail.telcom.net [200.62.2.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7E7743CAE for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:16:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akachler@telcom.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (adsl-2-152-135.mia.bellsouth.net [65.2.152.135]) by mail.telcom.net (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBKHGBxT096826; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:16:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from akachler@telcom.net) Message-ID: <45896FCC.3010805@telcom.net> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:15:56 -0500 From: Arie Kachler Organization: Telcom.Net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Knepper References: <4585A6B0.6010800@digitaldaemon.com> <4586A0A8.5090703@telcom.net> <45896C5B.5040002@digitaldaemon.com> In-Reply-To: <45896C5B.5040002@digitaldaemon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.5 -> 6.1 for ISP purposes X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: akachler@telcom.net List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:16:28 -0000 Hi again Jan, It was not an upgrade. It was a 6.1R install. Good luck! Jan Knepper wrote: > Hi Artie! > > Thanks for the response! > Great to hear 6.1+ is as solid for server applications as it has > seemed to be for my desktop. > Did you every update a 5.5-STABLE box to 6.x? Did you follow any > specific procedure? > I personally am too much into the BSD's to ever seriously try a Linux > again... ;-) > > Thanks! > Jan > > > > Arie Kachler wrote: >> Hi Jan, >> >> We run some very high traffic mail systems on 6.1R. >> We did have issues before >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-06:02.net.asc >> was released. >> But 6.1 + above patch is rock solid and very fast on high-end servers. >> We tried running a production server on Fedora 5. I was very >> dissapointed on how unstable it is under heavy loads. Needless to >> say, we went back to 6.1. >> I've been reading that there are some issues with shared IRQ setups. >> Since this doesn't apply to us, I don't know much about it. >> I can't say enough good things about 6.1. >> >> Arie >> >> >> Jan Knepper wrote: >>> Hi... >>> >>> Currently running FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE, but am considering running >>> jails with ezjail however nullfs does not seem to be stable in 5.5. >>> >>> Has any of you upgrade a life system 5.x to 6.1-STABLE? Any serious >>> gotcha's? >>> >>> How is 6.1-STABLE for server purposes stability wise? (Dual Opteron >>> machines with 2 GB of RAM and 256GB SATA drives) >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Jan >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >>> >>> . >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > > > . >