I'm impressed with 5.4-PRERELEASE

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, David D.W. Downey wrote:

>
> I am truly impressed with the speed increases across the board with
> 5.4-PRERELEASE.
> I currently run an ipfw + ipnat + quagga box that handles our local
> network traffic as well as bgp peering for ipv6 blocks.
> I don't usually go gaga over most operating systems, but I must say I'm
> very happy with the prerelease.

At work, we have our own success story with it. We migrated our busiest 
webservers via re-install, to 5.4-pre (From 4.x) with much success. In 
all, the operation took about an hour to get the machines back up and 
handling requests. During this time, traffic was redirected to a couple of 
spare 5.4-pre servers that we had racked for the occasion. The data 
volumes are still UFS1 at this point, but that migration will have to be 
for another time...

It all went so well that I was asked several hours after everything was 
back online if the process had begun! :-)

Andy

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