From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 18 22:06:57 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 8C15916A417 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:06:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jakob@dev.citybikes.cz) Received: from dev.citybikes.cz (r5o136.net.upc.cz [86.49.14.136]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBEBF13C467 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:06:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jakob@dev.citybikes.cz) Received: from dev.citybikes.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dev.citybikes.cz (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m0IM6sob003732 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:06:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jakob@dev.citybikes.cz) Received: (from jakob@localhost) by dev.citybikes.cz (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id m0IM6sYV003731; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:06:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jakob) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:06:54 +0100 From: Jakub Siroky To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080118230654.63e62314@dev> In-Reply-To: <200801182148.m0ILmOak008730@lava.sentex.ca> References: <014401c85a16$a5557280$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <200801182148.m0ILmOak008730@lava.sentex.ca> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: To 6.3 or to 7.0 that is the question? 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, 18 Jan 2008 22:06:57 -0000 Hello, please could you try to make large (hundred of GB) ext2 volume with e2fsprogs and copy large amount of data to it? On amd64 SMP (two cores) RELENG_7_0 it should lead to unrecoverable panic or scrolling strings "ext2_new_block: bit already set for block %d". On 6.2-STABLE there is no problem with linux partitions. Jakub Siroky On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:48:28 -0500 Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 04:11 PM 1/18/2008, Steven Hartland wrote: > >I know 7 has had a lot of work done on locking and ULE but are there > >any other reasons to go for that instead of 6.3? Conversely are there > >any reason which would point away from 7 such as stability issues? > > I think it depends what apps you run, what drivers you rely on. The > less esoteric your hardware is, the better the chances are that > things will work well (eg. em nics vs nfe or tl etc etc). > > Our production experiences with 7 have been good so far. I just did a > rather busy customer mail server this morning and so far so good. I > migrated it from 6.3 to 7 and am just finishing the portupgrade > process. We have also been running a 7.x box in our spam/virus > scanning cluster since late Nov 2007 and no issues there either. We > havent done any benchmarks to see if its faster than the 6.x boxes, > but its certainly stable so far and seems to at least keep up to the > other boxes. > > I am also testing a core2 and quad core box with 8 gig of RAM on a 4 > port Areca controller that will replace a 6.2 postgresql server next > week some time. Just doing some benchmarking/testing of that now and > hope to have RELENG_7 64bit deployed next week on it if all goes as planned. > > ---Mike > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"