Dell 2650 config for FreeBSD 4.9

[Jorn Argelo]

On Monday 22 March 2004 16:05, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > We are in the position to have to replace an intel ISP1100 which has
> > been running as our primary server for some time. As a potential
> > replacement we are looking at a Dell 2650 dual processor raid5 server,
> > specs below.   Up until now, the ISP1100 with a P3 800 and 1GB of PC100
> > RAM has been handling the load like a fine workhorse, but anything
> > purhcased now is well beyond those specs.  Does anyone have any first
> > hand experiences, caveats, warnings, or commendations for this server if
> > it is to use FreeBSD 4.9 as a dns/radius/website with extensive
> > PostgreSQL database usage.
>

Well, back when I was in traineeship for school, we had an PE2650 running 
FreeBSD 5.1. It was a tad unstable, since we had frequent kernel panics. 
However, one day my mentor re-compiled the kernel with newer sources, and it 
was rock solid. Probably some problems with the RAID controller, he said. I 
don't have any experiences with 4.X though, but I think it will be working 
just fine. It's a production release after all. So if you run into any 
problems, it might be the RAID controller.

Cheers,

Jorn