This coming weekend I'm planning on building a dual
Athlon MP
2000+ server with a Chaintech 7KDD AMD 762 Motherboard
w/onboard IDE RAID. On my "current" box I've been
running 4.X-
Stable, but it's a single cpu machine. It's primary
function
will be an Apache web server.
I'm very interested in running 5.0 so that I can take
advantage of the SMP enhancements, but I'm also
worried that
it may not be very stable for my configuration.
Assuming that those on this list have a lot more
experience
running FreeBSD with multiple CPUs, what are your
recommendations?
Specifically, should I stick with 4.X, or start using
5.0? Are there widespread problems with 5.0, or do I
have a
pretty good chance of having a stable system? Which
build would you suggest?
It's not mission critical in the sense that I can't
build it,
then rebuild it if it turns out to not work out well,
but
that's obviously a lot of work and wasted time that
could be
avoided if I can get a warning that there is little
chance
5.0 is stable enough to run on my configuration.
Also, if you have a recommendation for one or the
other, are
there specific kernel/tuning parameters to make sure I
include or to make sure I avoid like the plague?
Thanks in advance for the benefit of your experience
and
advice,
Thomas
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