Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:01:15 -0500 From: Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com> To: akachler@telcom.net Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.5 -> 6.1 for ISP purposes Message-ID: <45896C5B.5040002@digitaldaemon.com> In-Reply-To: <4586A0A8.5090703@telcom.net> References: <4585A6B0.6010800@digitaldaemon.com> <4586A0A8.5090703@telcom.net>
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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" > >
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