From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 08:55:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A559616A4BF for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:55:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from h2.liquidneon.com (h2.liquidneon.com [38.116.133.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAE2F43FBF for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:55:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bdavis@house.so14k.com) Received: (qmail 21786 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2003 15:55:56 -0000 Received: from 12-235-234-120.client.attbi.com (HELO mccaffrey.house.so14k.com) (@12.235.234.120) by h2.liquidneon.com with SMTP; 11 Sep 2003 15:55:56 -0000 Received: by mccaffrey.house.so14k.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 926B7638; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:55:55 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:55:55 -0600 From: Brad Davis To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030911155555.GA52373@mccaffrey.house.so14k.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: <200309101652.34637.x@Vex.Net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200309101652.34637.x@Vex.Net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: is 5.x still too unstable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:55:57 -0000 I would say yes, wait. I'm waiting till 5.3 or so, after 5-STABLE has been created and bugs have been worked out, this is extremely important for production servers. -B On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 04:52:34PM -0400, Tim Middleton wrote: > > I am hoping to move some of the servers in our ISP to FreeBSD. I have been > rather hoping 5.2 would be reliable enough, so that we can move to it and > enjoy all the -CURRENT goodness. > > The test server locked up yesterday, during some heavy port building, after > running for weeks with no problem. (-; I've not gone to investigate the > cause yet. But it has me nervous. It's been difficult to get FreeBSD accepted > at all here, so I'm wanting it to make a good impression. > > I have run 5 at home since 5.0-Release (currently 20030821 snapshot); and > while there have been problems now and again with a few builds, once these > have been solved my system here has been really very stable, which gave me > hope it would be also OK for work... > > So what is the general opinion of those here? Should i play it safe and go > back to 4.x until 5.x becomes officially "stable". Or do people think that > for most general purpose stuff 5.x should be generally stable "enough"? > "Enough" is a bit of a difficult word to define... of course one wants rock > solid for a server... but one may be able to tolerate some sorts of problems > as long as they can be sorted out quickly, and things are moving towards > ultimate stability in the near future. These aren't huge servers (no > multi-processor)... but moderately busy. Running the usual sorts of things... > apache, postfix, python, zope, nfs, etc. > > I realise my post may be a little premature when I haven't even checked out > what seems to have taken the test box down yet; but it's been on my mind to > solicit opinions here before this happened, so... any thoughts or experiences > running 5x on ISP servers to share out there? Are some snapshots known to be > better than others? Any tips/tweaks on making 5.x just a little more > stable---even at the cost of performance---than a default install (like > disabling acpi, as the first thing). > > -- > Tim Middleton | Cain Gang Ltd | A man is rich in proportion to the number of > x@veX.net | www.Vex.Net | things which he can afford to let alone. HDT > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"