From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 24 21:25:30 2003 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 DFB0237B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 21:25:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from workhorse.imach.com (barbwire.iMach.com [206.127.77.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DF2A43E4A for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 21:25:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from forrestc@imach.com) Received: from localhost (forrestc@localhost) by workhorse.imach.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0P5PQ342644 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:25:27 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from forrestc@imach.com) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:25:26 -0700 (MST) From: "Forrest W. Christian" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: 5.0 SMP status. Message-ID: <20030124220833.H38546-100000@workhorse.imach.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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