Re: Overall "feel" for the stability of FreeBSD 5

From: Rossam Souza Silva <rss_at_cin.ufpe.br>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 04:05:03 -0300 (BRT)
FYI, last week I upgraded our web proxy server from 4.4 security branch.
To say better, I made a new install, from scratch. This machine has two
PII 400MHz, four SCSI disks, 512MB, a xl NIC and runs squid 2.5. All http
requests of our network (~500 machines) are redirected by the firewall/router
to this machine. At this time, no problem happened. I'm confident with CURRENT
stability because all my desktops and my notebook also runs CURRENT, so I can
"smell" and "fell" trouble ASAP. :-) But YMMV.

The upgrade of our backup server (using amanda) is my next step.

If you want some hints:

1) Install 5.0-RELEASE
2) Upgrade sources to CURRENT (src & ports)
3) Compile and install
4) Install all software you need (amanda, portupgrade, cvsup etc.)
5) Do not make system upgrades until 5.1, unless really necessary (eg.
   security or stability fix).

Network / UNIX admin of Centro de Informatica - UFPE
http://www.cin.ufpe.br

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On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Steve Sizemore wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:30:09AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
> > I'm considering setting up a FreeBSD 5 machine as a dedicated
> > backup/archive computer on a network I administer.
> >
> > I'm curious to hear some opinions on how wise this is.  I know
> > that 5 is still in a -CURRENT status and I've seen (and repeated)
> > the warnings that it's not really production quality yet.
> >
> > So I'm curious as to a number of facets of its capibilities:
> > 1) With the current developmet effort ... does it seem like 5.1
> >    will be -STABLE ... or do folks feel that a -STABLE brand
> >    is further off (5.2?)
> > 2) For a dedicated backup server, that can tolerate the
> >    performance problems that folks have been reporting, and
> >    won't upset the entire office if it panics on occasion, is 5
> >    good enough at this point?
>
> I've been running RELENG_5_0 on a production server since January, and
> it's working fine.  (It's our backup server - amanda - among other
> things.) It wasn't my first choice; I really wanted to run RELENG_4_7,
> but that didn't support the RAID controller. At this point, I could
> downgrade to 4.8, but there are a couple of other features I'd have to
> give up. Even though it makes me nervous to run a version not on the
> secure branch, I'm going to stick with it until there is a stable
> branch, or until I run into a problem.  So far, I have not.
> (Performance hasn't been an issue for me.) I haven't had a single
> panic.
>
> Steve
> --
> Steve Sizemore <steve_at_ls.berkeley.edu>, (510) 642-8570
> Unix System Manager
>     Dept. of Mathematics and College of Letters and Science
>     University of California, Berkeley
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