Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:47:57 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, akachler@telcom.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.5 -> 6.1 for ISP purposes Message-ID: <4589855D.5010100@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <45896C5B.5040002@digitaldaemon.com> References: <4585A6B0.6010800@digitaldaemon.com> <4586A0A8.5090703@telcom.net> <45896C5B.5040002@digitaldaemon.com>
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On 12/20/06 11:01, 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... ;-) I've done this lots of times, and it's worked fine for me each time. Eric > 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" >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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