FreeBSD 5.5 -> 6.1 for ISP purposes

[Eric Anderson]

On 12/20/06 11:01, Jan Knepper wrote:
> 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... ;-)

I've done this lots of times, and it's worked fine for me each time.


Eric


> 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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