From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 13 00:05:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BFD837B401 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 00:05:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazare.cin.ufpe.br (nazare.cin.ufpe.br [150.161.2.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7693243F3F for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 00:05:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rss@cin.ufpe.br) Received: (from root@localhost) by nazare.cin.ufpe.br (8.11.6p2/8.11.6) id h3D756g75122; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 04:05:06 -0300 (BRT) (envelope-from rss@nazare.cin.ufpe.br) Received: from buique.cin.ufpe.br (buique [172.17.33.108]) by nazare.cin.ufpe.br (8.11.6p2/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h3D754393064; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 04:05:04 -0300 (BRT) (envelope-from rss@nazare.cin.ufpe.br) Received: from rss (helo=localhost) by buique.cin.ufpe.br with local-esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 194bY0-0002M5-00; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 04:05:04 -0300 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 04:05:03 -0300 (BRT) From: Rossam Souza Silva To: Steve Sizemore In-Reply-To: <20030413044625.GB40422@math.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Rossam Souza Silva cc: Bill Moran cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Overall "feel" for the stability of FreeBSD 5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:05:16 -0000 FYI, last week I upgraded our web proxy server from 4.4 security branch. To say better, I made a new install, from scratch. This machine has two PII 400MHz, four SCSI disks, 512MB, a xl NIC and runs squid 2.5. All http requests of our network (~500 machines) are redirected by the firewall/router to this machine. At this time, no problem happened. I'm confident with CURRENT stability because all my desktops and my notebook also runs CURRENT, so I can "smell" and "fell" trouble ASAP. :-) But YMMV. The upgrade of our backup server (using amanda) is my next step. If you want some hints: 1) Install 5.0-RELEASE 2) Upgrade sources to CURRENT (src & ports) 3) Compile and install 4) Install all software you need (amanda, portupgrade, cvsup etc.) 5) Do not make system upgrades until 5.1, unless really necessary (eg. security or stability fix). Network / UNIX admin of Centro de Informatica - UFPE http://www.cin.ufpe.br ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- (_ ) BOFH excuse #80: That's a great computer you have there; have you \\\'',) ^ considered how it would work as a BSD machine? \/ \( .\._/_) Rossam Souza Silva (rss@cin.ufpe.br) ICQ# 175885569 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Steve Sizemore wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:30:09AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > I'm considering setting up a FreeBSD 5 machine as a dedicated > > backup/archive computer on a network I administer. > > > > I'm curious to hear some opinions on how wise this is. I know > > that 5 is still in a -CURRENT status and I've seen (and repeated) > > the warnings that it's not really production quality yet. > > > > So I'm curious as to a number of facets of its capibilities: > > 1) With the current developmet effort ... does it seem like 5.1 > > will be -STABLE ... or do folks feel that a -STABLE brand > > is further off (5.2?) > > 2) For a dedicated backup server, that can tolerate the > > performance problems that folks have been reporting, and > > won't upset the entire office if it panics on occasion, is 5 > > good enough at this point? > > I've been running RELENG_5_0 on a production server since January, and > it's working fine. (It's our backup server - amanda - among other > things.) It wasn't my first choice; I really wanted to run RELENG_4_7, > but that didn't support the RAID controller. At this point, I could > downgrade to 4.8, but there are a couple of other features I'd have to > give up. Even though it makes me nervous to run a version not on the > secure branch, I'm going to stick with it until there is a stable > branch, or until I run into a problem. So far, I have not. > (Performance hasn't been an issue for me.) I haven't had a single > panic. > > Steve > -- > Steve Sizemore , (510) 642-8570 > Unix System Manager > Dept. of Mathematics and College of Letters and Science > University of California, Berkeley > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >