I would recomend 4.7 for a production machine. Until 5.0 is -STABLE I wouldn't use it for anything as mission-critical as a Mail server.
Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Forrest W. Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 12:25 AM Subject: 5.0 SMP status. > > I've got a Intel-motherboard-based SMP box I'm going to be using as a > fairly heavily loaded mail server. I've currently got 4-Stable on it, but > for various reasons I need to blow the installation away and start over. > > I'm currently wavering between putting 4.x or 5.x on it. I'd like to put > 5.x on it since I will have some time (month or so) to stabilize it before > it really goes into production. On the other hand, I'm seeing notes in > various that indicate that the SMP subsystem might not be nearly stable > enough for anything even resembling production work. > > So I guess my question really is something along the lines of "What is the > consensus on the stablility of 5.x in an SMP environment?" or "Other than > the newness and lack of real world experience with 5.x is there any other > compelling reasons why I shouldn't be putting 5.x on this box?" > > - Forrest W. Christian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) AC7DE > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Innovation Machine Ltd. P.O. Box 5749 > http://www.imach.com/ Helena, MT 59604 > Home of PacketFlux Technologies and BackupDNS.com (406)-442-6648 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Protect your personal freedoms - visit http://www.lp.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
