----- Original Message ---- > From: syle ishere <syleishere_at_hotmail.com> > To: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org > Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 6:53:00 PM > Subject: which version to install for next 2-3 years? > > I have a coloed box, OS on their now is ancient redhat 9.0, > was > thinking > about new SMP support and mysql speed advancements in 7.0. I'd > just > hate to > install 6.2 on it right now and thats way it stays for next 2-3 > years > if 7.0 > is stable enough to use right now. I threw away freebsd boxes on 4.x > branches because of SMP issues of it only using 1 processor for > mysql > etc, > but I see alot has changed again. Server is a dell 2650, 8 gigs of > ram, > dual > 3.2ghz xeon cpu's, 6 scsi drives. I use this box mainly for > apache/php, > > mysql, qmail,bind, perl and asterisk c development time to time. > > If I download latest snapshot, cvsup latest 7release and just > make > world etc > on it, would it be alright? I see the new scheduler for 7.0 had > some > nice > benchmarks for mysql. > > Dan. > Yes, I can confirm 7.0-BETA1 is so stable, I even was using it since 5 months when it was in current. For these apps I would say you should go for AMD64 arch, and you'll enjoy it ;) --- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.comReceived on Sat Oct 20 2007 - 14:25:40 UTC
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