Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 00:56:34 -0500 From: "Adam Maas" <mykroft@explosive.mail.net> To: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com>, <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 5.0 SMP status. Message-ID: <001001c2c436$84996a40$7419cdcd@ticking> References: <20030124220833.H38546-100000@workhorse.imach.com>
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I would recomend 4.7 for a production machine. Until 5.0 is -STABLE I wouldn't use it for anything as mission-critical as a Mail server. Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com> To: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 12:25 AM Subject: 5.0 SMP status. > > I've got a Intel-motherboard-based SMP box I'm going to be using as a > fairly heavily loaded mail server. I've currently got 4-Stable on it, but > for various reasons I need to blow the installation away and start over. > > I'm currently wavering between putting 4.x or 5.x on it. I'd like to put > 5.x on it since I will have some time (month or so) to stabilize it before > it really goes into production. On the other hand, I'm seeing notes in > various that indicate that the SMP subsystem might not be nearly stable > enough for anything even resembling production work. > > So I guess my question really is something along the lines of "What is the > consensus on the stablility of 5.x in an SMP environment?" or "Other than > the newness and lack of real world experience with 5.x is there any other > compelling reasons why I shouldn't be putting 5.x on this box?" > > - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Innovation Machine Ltd. P.O. Box 5749 > http://www.imach.com/ Helena, MT 59604 > Home of PacketFlux Technologies and BackupDNS.com (406)-442-6648 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Protect your personal freedoms - visit http://www.lp.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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