Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:16:38 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "User Freebsd" <freebsd@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Message-ID: <ef10de9a0607251916x27901170tb4a0afe765ac2b80@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060725200328.R17979@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060713181058.56349.qmail@web33309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <002101c6af09$aacf32f0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <eeef1a4c0607240646i318c8b83xb3f5f7e81f1fabd@mail.gmail.com> <003301c6afbb$4f1291c0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <20060725200328.R17979@ganymede.hub.org>
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On 7/25/06, User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > Oops, forgot about that. Use 5.x then. The statement is that newer > > versions of FreeBSD are slower than older versions. The point was that > > this isn't relevant to 90% of users for reasons I already cited. > > IMHO, I'm not so concerned about my servers being slower then older > versions, but the fact that, in some cases, we seem to be going backwards > are far as stability is concerned ... > > I've recently been experiencing lock ups with the three servers that I've > upgraded to 6.x ... one of which is <1 year old, the other two are 3 years > old ... after getting everything setup with DDB, to the point that I could > provide some very detailed traces, and core dumps, it looks like the > problem is the one thing common between all three servers: the iir driver > ... the two older machines are running Intel 0CH RAID controllers, the > newer one an ICP Vortex card ... both were rock solid machines under 4.x > ... > > If you check ICP Vortex's web site, you will actually find *vendor > supported* drivers (and CLIs) for both fbsd4 and fbsd5 but nadda for 6 or > 7 ... so, from looking at that, it looks like they have bail'd on the > newer FreeBSDs ... > > So, for me, it isn't a performance issue, its what looks to be a shrinking > hardware vendor support ... > ICP Vortex is an Adaptec company and Adaptec doesn't support FreeBSD. We've already been over this once. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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