From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 17 11:40:59 2003 Return-Path: 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 A1B6F37B404 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:40:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web14709.mail.yahoo.com (web14709.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.225.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EBDF143FAF for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:40:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sharper_12345@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030417184058.1585.qmail@web14709.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [198.69.126.113] by web14709.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:40:58 PDT Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:40:58 -0700 (PDT) From: s harper To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Version/Build recommendations desired X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: sharper_12345@yahoo.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 18:41:00 -0000 This coming weekend I'm planning on building a dual Athlon MP 2000+ server with a Chaintech 7KDD AMD 762 Motherboard w/onboard IDE RAID. On my "current" box I've been running 4.X- Stable, but it's a single cpu machine. It's primary function will be an Apache web server. I'm very interested in running 5.0 so that I can take advantage of the SMP enhancements, but I'm also worried that it may not be very stable for my configuration. Assuming that those on this list have a lot more experience running FreeBSD with multiple CPUs, what are your recommendations? Specifically, should I stick with 4.X, or start using 5.0? Are there widespread problems with 5.0, or do I have a pretty good chance of having a stable system? Which build would you suggest? It's not mission critical in the sense that I can't build it, then rebuild it if it turns out to not work out well, but that's obviously a lot of work and wasted time that could be avoided if I can get a warning that there is little chance 5.0 is stable enough to run on my configuration. Also, if you have a recommendation for one or the other, are there specific kernel/tuning parameters to make sure I include or to make sure I avoid like the plague? Thanks in advance for the benefit of your experience and advice, Thomas __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com