Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:34:52 +0100 From: Jorn Argelo <jorn@wcborstel.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu Subject: Re: Dell 2650 config for FreeBSD 4.9 Message-ID: <200403221734.52199.jorn@wcborstel.nl> In-Reply-To: <200403221505.i2MF5Wd10298@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200403221505.i2MF5Wd10298@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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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
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