From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 6 16:39:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A57A9106567C for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 16:39:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cliftonr@lava.net) Received: from outgoing01.lava.net (cake.lava.net [IPv6:2001:1888:0:1:230:48ff:fe5b:3b50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 784648FC19 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 16:39:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cliftonr@lava.net) Received: from malasada.lava.net (malasada.lava.net [64.65.64.17]) by outgoing01.lava.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBC1DD013B; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 06:39:40 -1000 (HST) Received: by malasada.lava.net (Postfix, from userid 102) id 3D8D3153882; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 06:39:40 -1000 (HST) Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 06:39:40 -1000 From: Clifton Royston To: Vivek Khera Message-ID: <20080606163939.GA3158@lava.net> Mail-Followup-To: Vivek Khera , FreeBSD Stable References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <4846D849.2090005@FreeBSD.org> <20080604204325.GD4701@lava.net> <702FA4B9-8CEE-4C9D-86A8-157CA1E69BD7@khera.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <702FA4B9-8CEE-4C9D-86A8-157CA1E69BD7@khera.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:39:43 -0000 On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 12:08:54PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: > > On Jun 4, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Clifton Royston wrote: > > > Speaking just for myself, I'd love to get a general response from > >people who have run servers on both as to whether 6.3 is on average > >more stable than 6.2. I really haven't gotten any clear impression as > > I'll throw in my "+1" for running 6.3. I have it on many boxes, some > of which run gmirror and some of which have bge devices (some with > both). Never any problems. They operate things varying from Postgres > servers to DNS servers to mail servers (postfix) under pretty > consistent load pushing lots and lots of data both network and to disk. Thanks. That sounds like the kind of broad experience I need, particularly as the main group of servers are mail servers (spam filtering machines running Postfix, with some config files on NFS.) -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- cliftonr@iandicomputing.com / cliftonr@lava.net President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services