On Oct 21, 2006, at 2:29 AM, ke han wrote:
I realize this is a bit open-ended. But I need some advice anyway
as I need to make a final decision on using FreeBSD 6.1 on a
production server.
I have a new Sun x4100 server. 2 x dual core Opterons with 8 GB
RAM. I need to run MySQL 5, a single threaded HTTP server, and a
few other single threaded daemons.
This server will have lots of long living sockets for one of the
single threaded servers. Other than that, its not outside normal
usage bounds.
I would like feedback on overall performance from anyone who has
used FreeBSD 6.1 with hardware similar to this. I'm not a guy who
cares about getting the last 10% of performance out of a server. I
am happy to trade performance for maintainability and a little
peace of mind.
I have a dual opteron 2.0ghz (not dual core) with 4GB ram running
6.1. It ran a very busy mysql 4 server (feeding three other
dedicated apache server machines), plus it runs a few FrontBase
databases that are not so busy (low -- med low usage), and about 30
instances of apache (ie, min of 30 jails, each running their own
apache) and a couple of jails with roxen serving webpages, plus a
bind daemon, a moderately busy exim mta, courier imap and pop
daemons, and some other assorted stuff, like a bunch of java based
WebObjects instance and some db stuff (like some low use mysql 4/5
etc). It rarely broke much of a heavy sweat in normal usage. The
super busy mysql 4 server is now gone and the machine rarely even
sweats at all now (all the rest is still there).
I would google on x4100 and FreeBSD or search the archives for any
machine-specific issues. I kind of remember some issues with some
sort of Sun servers.
best
Chad
btw, I'm not tried to start another FreeBSD has poor SMP flame-fest.
any thoughts?
thanks, ke han
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