Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:48:13 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ? Message-ID: <46F3935D.8090406@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <fctm58$sdi$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <20070918170558.X79003@tomato.local> <20070919044912.R22958@small> <46F0F1DF.9020508@FreeBSD.org> <46F165B0.8000309@hdk5.net> <fctm58$sdi$1@sea.gmane.org>
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Ivan Voras wrote: > NetOpsCenter wrote: > >> I have been using FreeBSD 7.0 since Jan 8 2007 CURRENT on this box >> which is a desktop for browsing and email with a Dual core AMD CPU >> setup. >> It rocks. >> >> I use FreeBSD 7.0 Current on 2 small mailservers using 3 year old >> hardware and it is rock solid. I believe the FreeBSD team has really >> got their act together on this one. > > Are you using any of the new features in 7.x? SCHED_ULE, ZFS? Because my > only 7.x production server that does crashes daily (luckily it's not a > critical machine) and non-server machines are not far behind. If you're > not using the "new" features, you could just as well run 6.x :) > > I'm actively trying to solve some of these problems, but from my > experience (I do a lot of things that may be considered "experimental", > but mostly userland-side, I run "vanilla" kernels) 7 simply isn't stable > yet. It might be in 7.0, but it's not yet. I use 7.0 on about 70 machines that are extremely heavily loaded, all running ULE, ranging from single through to 8 CPUs, some using ZFS, etc. I don't see these problems you are claiming, so you'll have to do some more detective work. Kris
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