From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 24 21:56:44 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 BD31A37B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 21:56:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from empire.explosive.mail.net (empire.explosive.mail.net [205.205.25.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7A4743F18 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 21:56:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mykroft@explosive.mail.net) Received: (qmail 22174 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2003 05:54:56 -0000 Received: from ticking.explosive.mail.net (HELO ticking) (205.205.25.116) by empire.explosive.mail.net with SMTP; 25 Jan 2003 05:54:56 -0000 Message-ID: <001001c2c436$84996a40$7419cdcd@ticking> From: "Adam Maas" To: "Forrest W. Christian" , References: <20030124220833.H38546-100000@workhorse.imach.com> Subject: Re: 5.0 SMP status. Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 00:56:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 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" To: 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