From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 17:29:30 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 3658D16A403 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:29:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jan@digitaldaemon.com) Received: from digitaldaemon.com (digitaldaemon.com [63.105.9.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 831B743CB2 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:28:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jan@digitaldaemon.com) Received: (qmail 72513 invoked by uid 98); 20 Dec 2006 17:01:17 -0000 Received: from 63.105.9.34 by digitaldaemon.com (envelope-from , uid 89) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.87/1195. Clear:RC:1(63.105.9.34):. Processed in 0.216422 secs); 20 Dec 2006 17:01:17 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: jan@digitaldaemon.com via digitaldaemon.com X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.25 (Clear:RC:1(63.105.9.34):. Processed in 0.216422 secs) Received: from digitaldaemon.com (HELO ?184.157.101.2?) (63.105.9.34) by digitaldaemon.com with SMTP; 20 Dec 2006 17:01:16 -0000 Message-ID: <45896C5B.5040002@digitaldaemon.com> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:01:15 -0500 From: Jan Knepper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: akachler@telcom.net References: <4585A6B0.6010800@digitaldaemon.com> <4586A0A8.5090703@telcom.net> In-Reply-To: <4586A0A8.5090703@telcom.net> 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 List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:29:30 -0000 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" > >