Quality of FreeBSD

[Nicklas B. Westerlund]

Marc Olzheim wrote:

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>but I'd like a clear answer on
>what to do now in regard to taking FreeBSD 5 into 'real' production...
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I'd have to second this request.  We rely heavily on the stability and
performance of FreeBSD in our business.
We've only had the occasional stupid hang on our RELENG_5_4 systems, but
I've deployed both RELENG_6
and -CURRENT in our labs now to see what kind of results I can get out
of it.

Although I havn't seen any major problems on our servers, all using u320
scsi and smp - I don't feel as secure about my choice of upgrading to 5.x.
We still have some 4.x servers in production, and judging by how this is
evolving, I think I'll rather skip the 5-branch for those machines and
keep testing 6.x.
The last thing we need is servers with problems to disturb our sleep at
night.

Overall I think we're a few of the lucky ones, as alot of people seem to
have huge problems which we havn't encountered, again that is because of
different architectures and such.

Nick.