Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 13:49:32 -0400 From: Sven Willenberger <sven@dmv.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1 stability Message-ID: <1083952172.30937.16.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> In-Reply-To: <00d601c4344f$f1bdb920$41c3c3cf@office.sihope.com> References: <00d601c4344f$f1bdb920$41c3c3cf@office.sihope.com>
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On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 11:25 -0500, Adam Maloney wrote: > We've been having SMP issues with 4.9 and 4.10 on a couple different pieces > of hardware, but have had success with 5.2.1. I asked this particular > question ons freebsd-table, but I think -current might be a better place for > it. > > If we can get our necessary services running on these boxes under 5.2.1, how > stable is it likely to be? Basically, if I setup one of these boxes as a > mailserver, and it will only ever be a mailserver, can I expect the 5.2.1 > codebase to behave in the long term? > We have been running several 5.2.1 boxes as mailservers and have found them to be stable at this point as follows: running sendmail, we have 3 boxes load balanced that handle upwards of 1.5 to 2 million attempted email deliveries (I say attempted because a lot of them get rejected by rbl lookups). running sendmail + mimedefang + spamassassin we have 6 boxes load balancing about 1/2 million emails. We do have an issue (which I have posted here previously) concerning softupdates/kernel panics yet to be resolved. I suspect that it is the mimedefang temp files causing this and I am experimenting with moving those to a RAMdisk as a solution. running courier-imap + procmail + qpopper and/or ipop3d on 3 boxes without a hitch. Only tweak we had to do on the boxes with 20k+ local accounts was create an /etc/nsswitch.conf file to have lookups done by file rather than the [default] nis; this sped up the authentication process immensely All in all, I would say run with it!! Sven
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