Which FreeBSD is the most stable for Dell PowerEdge 2850

[Vivek Khera]

On Jun 30, 2006, at 8:08 PM, Dan Charrois wrote:

> In any case, the server is used heavily all year except July, so  
> this is my time of year to take things apart, update software,  
> etc.  And so I'm wondering - what is the recommended version of  
> FreeBSD I should be running if stability is of the utmost  
> importance?  Should I migrate to the 6.x stream?  Is it relatively  
> solid?  Or should I stay with 5.4 for now?  I've seen some messages  
> posted periodically from various people running into problems,

I don't have any 2850's but the 1850 I have has been running 6.0  
since the BETA1, and last night just upgraded it to 6.1.  No issues.   
The PERC 4e/Si card is phenominally fast on this system (running 2  
disk RAID1).  I'd recommend you to run 6.1 as it is stable on all of  
my Dell systems that run it (and I'm migrating the older FreeBSD  
boxes to 6.1 as time permits).

If you already have > 1 CPU, you might as well leave hyperthreading  
off.  There are cases where it degenerates performance rather than  
enhance it.

As for mysql version, "no comment" :-)