From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Jul 20 10:23:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA25093 for smp-outgoing; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 10:23:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA25083; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 10:23:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with UUCP id TAA01514; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 19:15:15 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id TAA09070; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 19:01:17 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970720190117.09549@gtn.com> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 19:01:17 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Penisoara Adrian Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need advice for SMP production server References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: ; from Penisoara Adrian on Sun, Jul 20, 1997 at 07:04:59PM +0300 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Jul 20, 1997 at 07:04:59PM +0300, Penisoara Adrian wrote: > > Hi ! > > I need some advice regarding a full reinstall for an 2xP133 server (Tyan > Tomcat III S1563D with AHA2940AU). > Currently I have 3.0-9702090-SNAP with the pre-Lite2 kernel (and its > aic7xxx SCSI problem); I plan to install a newer 3.0-current version and I > have to choose between the 3.0-970618-SNAP on the official FreeBSD server > and the daily snapshots from current.FreeBSD.org. Generally I'd want to warn you, that -current is not the typical environment for a production machine. You should use FreeBSD-2.2.2 and cvsup the 2.2-STABLE version. On the other hand -current is since a long time in a very good shape with only minor trouble from time to time. And it's the only release, that has SMP capabilities. Since I use better hardware and have a new power supply, I had no big trouble and am running a very fast 2 x 200 MHz PPro machine. Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm | klemm.gtn.com - powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html