Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Tim Kellers
Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production environment? My old Dell 2400 hardware is quickly expiring and I need to replace it with something that will support FreeBSD 6.2 and have enough

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread falz
On 9/26/07, Tim Kellers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production environment? My old Dell 2400 hardware is quickly expiring and I need to replace it with something

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Martin McCormick
Tim Kellers writes: Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production environment? We recently installed Dell 2950's for DNS and DHCP server applications. They work great but some of their

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:18:49PM -0400, Tim Kellers wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production environment? My old Dell 2400 hardware is quickly expiring and I need to replace it

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Tim Kellers wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production environment? Hi, I've got 860, 1435, 1600, 1950, 2950 all running 6.2-relelase-p7 with custom kernels. Watch out though the RAID-1

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Martin McCormick wrote: one of the boot messages we see is that all memory above 4 gigs is ignored or something to that effect. real memory = 3489300480 (3327 MB) avail memory = 3414794240 (3256 MB) Thats not freebsd and if its its because you are using i386 and not amd64 From a 1950 head

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 26, 2007, at 1:01 PMSep 26, 2007, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Martin McCormick wrote: [snip] real memory = 9395240960 (8960 MB) avail memory = 8291303424 (7907 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Eric Crist wrote: On Sep 26, 2007, at 1:01 PMSep 26, 2007, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Martin McCormick wrote: [snip] real memory = 9395240960 (8960 MB) avail memory = 8291303424 (7907 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Tim Kellers
Thanks! I plan on using RAID 5 Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Tim Kellers wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production environment? Hi, I've got 860, 1435, 1600, 1950, 2950 all

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Tim Kellers
Thanks to everyone who has replied so far. This is very good information to know! Tim Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Eric Crist wrote: On Sep 26, 2007, at 1:01 PMSep 26, 2007, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Martin McCormick wrote: [snip] real memory = 9395240960 (8960 MB)