Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:17:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net> To: Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proliant servers ? Message-ID: <20060615135804.G38400@kerplunk.tbe.net> In-Reply-To: <44916D97.3000201@esiee.fr> References: <44916D97.3000201@esiee.fr>
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> Hi > > I'm planning to replace our mailhub with a new HP Proliant 380 > with 2 or 4 processors. > > I warmly welcome any feedback on admins that runs FreeBSD SMP > 6.1 on that kind of machines with scsi disks. I currently have 2 Proliant DL360 G1 servers running as my mailhub machines. Dual P-III 800Mhz, dual 18GB SCSI drives, mirrored RAID-1 on built-in SMART Array controller, 768MB RAM. They are running 6.1-STABLE, installed as 6.1-RELEASE boxes, then source upgraded to STABLE via normal buildworld procedures. I had to disable ACPI on original install, and keep it off (there is an option under the installer where it asks you if you want to keep it off for the future), otherwise it would hang immediately upon trying to boot. Aside from that, the install went normally, and I've had zero problems since. The RAID array works flawlessly, I had a drive blow out on one machine, I just hot-swapped it with a new one, it rebuilt on the fly, and no on ever noticed anything. No reboot needed, which is the way it should work. The machines are currently running main DNS services, plus Postfix with SpamAssassin, and are our primary MX border servers which handle roughly 30-40k messages per day. Hope this helps. -Gary > Thanks > -- > Cordialement > Frank Bonnet > > To be or not to be -- Shakespeare > To do is to be -- Nietzsche > To be is to do -- Kant > Do be do be do -- Sinatra > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-smp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-smp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-smp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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