From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 23 18:30:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA28715 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 18:30:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sparks.net (exim@gw.sparks.net [204.248.143.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA28706 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 18:30:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from david by sparks.net with smtp (Exim 1.62 #5) id 0wrCjG-0007KA-00; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 21:30:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 21:30:05 -0400 (EDT) From: To: Victor Manuel Carranza Gonzalez cc: FreeBSD Questions mailing list Subject: Re: SMP: Should I abandon FreeBSD? :-( In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Victor Manuel Carranza Gonzalez wrote: > Hello, everybody! > > I am just wondering if my totally-happy-FreeBSD-user days are coming to an > end. I need to instal a couple of servers, with two 200 MHz Pentium Pro > processors each one; but I'm not sure about the idea of using > FreeBSD-current (the only tree including SMP) for a serious application... > you know... I don't want the system crashing unexplainably, or any > sort of weird behaviour (I plan to use PostgreSQL and manage big databases > on those servers). Does PostgreSQL benefit from having multiple processors? It's not safe to assume it does, IMHO. It also may not even work properly. > Please give me some advise... Should I try another free OS? 9if so, which > one?) Or should I stick with FreeBSD and take the risk of running > -current? (If I can't find a suitable free OS, I will probably be another > victim of Bill Gates; so, please HELP :-) I don't know of any robust and free combinations of OS and RDBMS. I personally think you might re-examine whether you really need multiple CPU's. Going to NT isn't likely to help - my understanding is that it's so slow and inefficient to start with that plugging in 2-4 processors is required just to get even with a good single processor unix box. Mind you now, this advice is worth every penney you paid for it, and if you're lucky a few more:) If you want to stick with the PC architecture, solaris X86 and oracle is probably your most powerful combination. --- David Miller ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's *amazing* what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do!