Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:42:05 -0400 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Konrad Heuer" <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> Subject: Re: Dual PII - Upgrade to 3.0-R? Message-ID: <199810221343.JAA03323@laker.net>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:29:35 +0200 (CEST), Konrad Heuer wrote: >I administer a rather important server with dual PII board that runs very >stable with 2.2.6-R and *one* CPU. The second CPU waits for work in a >cabinet nearby. Any recommendations to upgrade by now to 3.0-R and to >plug in the second CPU? Or is it still a little bit risky? Though I haven't been using 3.0, I do have an opinion based on my professional experience. There is an axiom that states that no amount of testing can prove that they are no more bugs. Therefore, the proof is in the pudding... I'd schedule some maintenace time and disconnect the disks, add a spare disk with 3.0 already on it, add the second CPU and run my own tests. And I'd reschedule more maintenance time until I was satisfied. There are people out there that have been running 3.0 for almost a year now, I believe. But no one else's experience can guarantee your results. Risk is never zero. Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199810221343.JAA03323>