From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 26 5: 2:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F77337B401 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 05:02:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from manhattan.unsavoury.net (manhattan.unsavoury.net [62.250.7.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1228E43E88 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 05:02:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mdv@unsavoury.net) Received: from nosinetmrtn (maarten.omroep.nl [145.58.13.73]) by manhattan.unsavoury.net (Postfix MTA on FreeBSD) with SMTP id BCDF819371 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:02:17 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <005901c2954c$0d229ae0$490d3a91@nosinetmrtn> From: "Maarten de Vries" To: Subject: FreeBSD on IBM's X335 series Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:02:17 +0100 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 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, We're planning on purchasing a bunch of IBM X335 servers, equipped with 4 P4 CPU's en 4Gb of memory. These should run either Apache plus Tomcat|Orion or Mysql|Postgresql. Since we're looking into using FreeBSD instead of RedHat on these systems, I'd be grateful if you could provide me with some firsthand experiences. - how well does FreeBSD install on IBM's X335 or X300 series in general? - does it cope well with this many CPU's and this much RAM? - how well does Java perform on FBSD (I hear Java will part of the basesystem)? - how does threading work in FreeBSD? Is there something like 'clone' or 'sproc'? Any of your input will be much appreciated. Regards, -- Maarten de Vries http://unsavouy.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message