challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

Clifton Royston cliftonr at lava.net
Fri Jun 6 16:39:43 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 12:08:54PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> 
> On Jun 4, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Clifton Royston wrote:
> 
> > Speaking just for myself, I'd love to get a general response from
> >people who have run servers on both as to whether 6.3 is on average
> >more stable than 6.2.  I really haven't gotten any clear impression as
> 
> I'll throw in my "+1" for running 6.3.  I have it on many boxes, some  
> of which run gmirror and some of which have bge devices (some with  
> both).  Never any problems.  They operate things varying from Postgres  
> servers to DNS servers to mail servers (postfix) under pretty  
> consistent load pushing lots and lots of data both network and to disk.

Thanks.  That sounds like the kind of broad experience I need,
particularly as the main group of servers are mail servers (spam
filtering machines running Postfix, with some config files on NFS.)

  -- Clifton

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