Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 06:39:40 -1000 From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> To: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 Message-ID: <20080606163939.GA3158@lava.net> In-Reply-To: <702FA4B9-8CEE-4C9D-86A8-157CA1E69BD7@khera.org> References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <4846D849.2090005@FreeBSD.org> <20080604204325.GD4701@lava.net> <702FA4B9-8CEE-4C9D-86A8-157CA1E69BD7@khera.org>
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On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 12:08:54PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
>
> On Jun 4, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Clifton Royston wrote:
>
> > Speaking just for myself, I'd love to get a general response from
> >people who have run servers on both as to whether 6.3 is on average
> >more stable than 6.2. I really haven't gotten any clear impression as
>
> I'll throw in my "+1" for running 6.3. I have it on many boxes, some
> of which run gmirror and some of which have bge devices (some with
> both). Never any problems. They operate things varying from Postgres
> servers to DNS servers to mail servers (postfix) under pretty
> consistent load pushing lots and lots of data both network and to disk.
Thanks. That sounds like the kind of broad experience I need,
particularly as the main group of servers are mail servers (spam
filtering machines running Postfix, with some config files on NFS.)
-- Clifton
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