From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 26 22:58:48 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 5FBD116A41F for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:58:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from benlutz@datacomm.ch) Received: from maxlor.mine.nu (c-213-160-32-54.customer.ggaweb.ch [213.160.32.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD6B043D45 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:58:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from benlutz@datacomm.ch) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by maxlor.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07834287; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:58:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maxlor.mine.nu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (midgard [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13236-09; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:58:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.0.0.23] (mini.intranet [10.0.0.23]) by maxlor.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C19E0A3; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:58:44 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42E6C028.6020806@datacomm.ch> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:58:48 +0200 From: Benjamin Lutz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eriq References: <42E6BD98.1060300@tigergroup.org> In-Reply-To: <42E6BD98.1060300@tigergroup.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB8A6A259800831E80FD08C17" X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at maxlor.mine.nu Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.11 vs. 5.4 stablity X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:58:48 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB8A6A259800831E80FD08C17 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Eriq wrote: > I am running 4.11 on a dual amd box and have found it solid as a rock > for running apache2, postgres, dns and postfix. But now I am thinking > of upgrading. I wonder if 5.4 is as stable for these servers that > must run 24/7. And is it worth all the trouble to do, I have grown > pretty lazy :) I'd go with that old saying, never touch a running system. 4.11 is still going to be maintained for quite a long time, so if your machine runs fine now, why not leave it as it is. If you want to upgrade, maybe you should wait a bit longer and give 6.0 a closer look (set to be released in August at the moment). My current impression is that it's stabler than 5.4 (but then, other people have reported otherwise - I suppose it's somewhat hardware-dependent). Cheers Benjamin --------------enigB8A6A259800831E80FD08C17 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin) iD8DBQFC5sAsgShs4qbRdeQRAkRiAJ9jM0unHmeJjh2aXIWzxXTUInO+VwCgjFdp vOp6J9iot78TOaptd9MdBoU= =+T5X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB8A6A259800831E80FD08C17--