FreeBSD 5.5 -> 6.1 for ISP purposes

[Jan Knepper]

Hi Artie!

Thanks for the response!
Great to hear 6.1+ is as solid for server applications as it has seemed 
to be for my desktop.
Did you every update a 5.5-STABLE box to 6.x? Did you follow any 
specific procedure?
I personally am too much into the BSD's to ever seriously try a Linux 
again... ;-)

Thanks!
Jan



Arie Kachler wrote:
> Hi Jan,
>
> We run some very high traffic mail systems on 6.1R.
> We did have issues before 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-06:02.net.asc 
> was released.
> But 6.1 + above patch is rock solid and very fast on high-end servers.
> We tried running a production server on Fedora 5. I was very 
> dissapointed on how unstable it is under heavy loads. Needless to say, 
> we went back to 6.1.
> I've been reading that there are some issues with shared IRQ setups. 
> Since this doesn't apply to us, I don't know much about it.
> I can't say enough good things about 6.1.
>
> Arie
>
>
> Jan Knepper wrote:
>> Hi...
>>
>> Currently running FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE, but am considering running 
>> jails with ezjail however nullfs does not seem to be stable in 5.5.
>>
>> Has any of you upgrade a life system 5.x to 6.1-STABLE? Any serious 
>> gotcha's?
>>
>> How is 6.1-STABLE for server purposes stability wise? (Dual Opteron 
>> machines with 2 GB of RAM and 256GB SATA drives)
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Jan
>>
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