Re: FreeBSD 5.5 -> 6.1 for ISP purposes

Thanks Frank!

Not planning on using nfsd (I think) with quota's.
The main thing at this moment is Internet services as Apache (1.3), qmail, vpopmail, nntp, cvs, cvsup, etc. Hopefully I will not have to rebuild all that stuff on 6.x to make them work
Than the new things is going to be jails (ezjail) which uses nullfs to preserve disk space.

Thanks!
Jan



Frank Clements wrote:
Jan,
I recently ran into nfsd load issues related to quotas in 6.1-RELEASE.
Turning quota option off in the kernel fixed it. So if you'll be using
nfsd w/ quotas you may want to go with 6.0 as I don't believe that has
the problem.

Information can be found here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2006-June/018939.html

Regards,
-Frank C.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-isp@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Arie Kachler
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 9:08 AM
To: Jan Knepper; freebsd-isp@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.5 -> 6.1 for ISP purposes

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.as
c
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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