On Monday 22 March 2004 16:05, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > We are in the position to have to replace an intel ISP1100 which has > > been running as our primary server for some time. As a potential > > replacement we are looking at a Dell 2650 dual processor raid5 server, > > specs below. Up until now, the ISP1100 with a P3 800 and 1GB of PC100 > > RAM has been handling the load like a fine workhorse, but anything > > purhcased now is well beyond those specs. Does anyone have any first > > hand experiences, caveats, warnings, or commendations for this server if > > it is to use FreeBSD 4.9 as a dns/radius/website with extensive > > PostgreSQL database usage. >
Well, back when I was in traineeship for school, we had an PE2650 running FreeBSD 5.1. It was a tad unstable, since we had frequent kernel panics. However, one day my mentor re-compiled the kernel with newer sources, and it was rock solid. Probably some problems with the RAID controller, he said. I don't have any experiences with 4.X though, but I think it will be working just fine. It's a production release after all. So if you run into any problems, it might be the RAID controller. Cheers, Jorn _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"