From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 1 03:35:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7972A106564A for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 03:35:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prad@towardsfreedom.com) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5127E8FC13 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 03:35:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prad@towardsfreedom.com) Received: from pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.177]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0K3B0041U5XQ0810@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:34:38 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml8so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.152]) by pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0K3B00D825XQFT00@pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:34:38 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gom.home ([70.67.160.176]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0K3B001GH5XPIY10@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:34:37 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gom.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gom.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1DABB839 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:34:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:34:36 -0700 From: prad In-reply-to: <20080630231705.02193cae@verizon.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20080630203436.1cc7505d@gom.home> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <48698AB9.7070802@cwis.biz> <20080630190821.1e0cc713@gom.home> <20080630231705.02193cae@verizon.net> Subject: Re: Configuring an older server for speed... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:35:10 -0000 On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:17:05 -0400 David Gurvich wrote: > Many of these features have undiscovered bugs that you might > prefer not discovering on your own server. > oh oh. but what if we are just running a plain webserver (mainly static html) and email. we are sticking to ufs of course. it is an older machine - dual 1.3G with 2G ram and a raid card. we've run 7 since the beginning of june on 2 desktops (700Hz with 192M and 128M ram) doing the above serving without any problems and are just about to set up this server to replace the other 2. should we use 7 or think about going with 6.3? -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's