From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 08:33:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31CBE16A4D5 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:33:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (node-c-0ab6.a2000.nl [62.194.10.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7656B43D1D for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:33:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jorn@wcborstel.nl) Received: from [172.16.1.2] (unknown [172.16.1.2]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 463471705D; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:31:58 +0100 (CET) From: Jorn Argelo To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:34:52 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <200403221505.i2MF5Wd10298@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200403221505.i2MF5Wd10298@clunix.cl.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403221734.52199.jorn@wcborstel.nl> cc: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu Subject: Re: Dell 2650 config for FreeBSD 4.9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:33:45 -0000 On Monday 22 March 2004 16:05, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > We are in the position to have to replace an intel ISP1100 which has > > been running as our primary server for some time. As a potential > > replacement we are looking at a Dell 2650 dual processor raid5 server, > > specs below. Up until now, the ISP1100 with a P3 800 and 1GB of PC100 > > RAM has been handling the load like a fine workhorse, but anything > > purhcased now is well beyond those specs. Does anyone have any first > > hand experiences, caveats, warnings, or commendations for this server if > > it is to use FreeBSD 4.9 as a dns/radius/website with extensive > > PostgreSQL database usage. > Well, back when I was in traineeship for school, we had an PE2650 running FreeBSD 5.1. It was a tad unstable, since we had frequent kernel panics. However, one day my mentor re-compiled the kernel with newer sources, and it was rock solid. Probably some problems with the RAID controller, he said. I don't have any experiences with 4.X though, but I think it will be working just fine. It's a production release after all. So if you run into any problems, it might be the RAID controller. Cheers, Jorn