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Date:      Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:12:24 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Configuring an older server for speed...
Message-ID:  <4869BCB8.9060906@infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20080630203436.1cc7505d@gom.home>
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prad wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:17:05 -0400
> David Gurvich <david.gurvich@verizon.net> wrote:
>=20
>> Many of these features have undiscovered bugs that you might
>> prefer not discovering on your own server.
>>
> oh oh.
> but what if we are just running a plain webserver (mainly static html)
> and email. we are sticking to ufs of course.
> it is an older machine - dual 1.3G with 2G ram and a raid card.
>=20
> we've run 7 since the beginning of june on 2 desktops (700Hz with 192M
> and 128M ram) doing the above serving without any problems and are just=

> about to set up this server to replace the other 2.
>=20
> should we use 7 or think about going with 6.3?
>=20

I'd go with 7.x every time.  It wipes the floor with 6.3 performance-wise=

and it is just as stable and bug-free as you'ld expect from FreeBSD.  You=
've
seen it works for you: there's no conceivable reason to downgrade.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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