From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 21 01:23:16 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9CB916A420 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:23:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from guam10.hdk5.net (guam10.hdk5.net [66.180.132.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E37F13C48D for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:23:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from [192.168.1.29] (unknown [66.180.149.18]) by guam10.hdk5.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B656C5C1F; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:23:14 -1000 (HST) Message-ID: <46F31D02.1070505@hdk5.net> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:23:14 -1000 From: NetOpsCenter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060417 FreeBSD/i386 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ivan Voras References: <20070918170558.X79003@tomato.local> <20070919044912.R22958@small> <46F0F1DF.9020508@FreeBSD.org> <46F165B0.8000309@hdk5.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: noc@hdk5.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:23:16 -0000 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 dont believe I use anything exotic. ZFS is not used either. My needs are simple and I have found 7 CURRENT works on several nic cards that I had problems with using in previous versions. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + noc@hdk5.net + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol