Re: Freebsd on the sun x4440

2011-05-30 Thread Mark Saad
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to suggest to try 8.2. > > It is my experience that the different version behave very different on the > same hardware. It does not mean that the newer version is the better. As an > example, I have a machine here on

Re: Freebsd on the sun x4440

2011-05-28 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I would like to suggest to try 8.2. It is my experience that the different version behave very different on the same hardware. It does not mean that the newer version is the better. As an example, I have a machine here on 7.x as 8.0 did not support the USB hardware found. After a machine w

Re: Freebsd on the sun x4440

2011-05-17 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, 17 May 2011, krad wrote: On 17 May 2012 01:34, Mark Saad wrote: All I am setting up 3 sun x4440 with freebsd 7.3 amd64 . The severs have 4x 4-core opterons and 128G of ram each . Once the servers boot they are a good fit for what we are doing and preform well . The odd thing I am see

Re: Freebsd on the sun x4440

2011-05-17 Thread krad
On 17 May 2012 01:34, Mark Saad wrote: > All > I am setting up 3 sun x4440 with freebsd 7.3 amd64 . The severs have 4x > 4-core opterons and 128G of ram each . Once the servers boot they are a good > fit for what we are doing and preform well . The odd thing I am seeing is a > long delay in boot

Freebsd on the sun x4440

2011-05-16 Thread Mark Saad
All I am setting up 3 sun x4440 with freebsd 7.3 amd64 . The severs have 4x 4-core opterons and 128G of ram each . Once the servers boot they are a good fit for what we are doing and preform well . The odd thing I am seeing is a long delay in boot up . Once in the initial loading of the kernel