From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 14:42:23 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 5791916A412 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:42:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from akachler@telcom.net) Received: from mail.telcom.net (mail.telcom.net [200.62.2.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E80343CB6 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:40:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akachler@telcom.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (adsl-2-152-135.mia.bellsouth.net [65.2.152.135]) by mail.telcom.net (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBIE7muo069352; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:07:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from akachler@telcom.net) Message-ID: <4586A0A8.5090703@telcom.net> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:07:36 -0500 From: Arie Kachler Organization: Telcom.Net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Knepper , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: <4585A6B0.6010800@digitaldaemon.com> In-Reply-To: <4585A6B0.6010800@digitaldaemon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.5 -> 6.1 for ISP purposes X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: akachler@telcom.net List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:42:23 -0000 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" > > > . >