From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 12:39:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.ops.uunet.co.za (axl.ops.uunet.co.za [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4CAF37BBEE for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:39:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.ops.uunet.co.za) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.ops.uunet.co.za) by axl.ops.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12cZA9-000OMN-00; Tue, 04 Apr 2000 21:38:57 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: "Stephen Yip" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Customer Support" , "Sales" , "Technical Support" Subject: Re: <<<<>>>>> In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Apr 2000 02:25:48 +0800." <20000404182345.20647.qmail@hotmail.com> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 21:38:57 +0200 Message-ID: <93642.954877137@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 02:25:48 +0800, "Stephen Yip" wrote: > We are a company who looking for high performance and Open Platform yet > very stables machines. So we have chose Free BSD 4.0 as our OS for it > is configurable, high compatibility and yet high performance. Excellent! While there are a few issues to be ironed out in FreeBSD 4.0, they're things a lot of people won't even see (e.g. tcpdump not installed if you don't select the crypto distribution). In terms of stability and performance, FreeBSD 4.0 is cut from an excellent vintage if you talk to people in the know. FreeBSD 4.0 ships with the amr driver, although you'd have noticed that it wasn't mentioned in the release notes. You should probably chat to the author of the driver, Mike Smith . Please note that Mike is a _very_ busy guy, so the more detailed a description of your configuration, the better. I have absolutely no idea what sort of configuration options are available for the actual hardware, so I can't be more specific in my advice. But try to tell him as much about the way things are configured as possible. Also, try to include in your message the output of a verbose boot. From the boot prompt, do ``boot -v'' and then, when you get into single-user or multi-user mode, use the dmesg(8) command to reproduce the boot probe messages. Good luck! Sheldon. PS: I saw that you got at least one message from someone suggesting that FreeBSD 4.0 is not for use in the production environment. While it must by now be obvious that there are many opinions floating around, I'd urge you to insist that people substantiate such claims. Also, remember that many people confuse stability with minor issues like the tcpdump problem mentioned above. :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message