Hi
I'm planning to replace our mailhub with a new HP Proliant 380
with 2 or 4 processors.
I warmly welcome any feedback on admins that runs FreeBSD SMP
6.1 on that kind of machines with scsi disks.
I currently have 2 Proliant DL360 G1 servers running as my mailhub
machines. Dual P-III 800Mhz, dual 18GB SCSI drives, mirrored RAID-1 on
built-in SMART Array controller, 768MB RAM.
They are running 6.1-STABLE, installed as 6.1-RELEASE boxes, then source
upgraded to STABLE via normal buildworld procedures.
I had to disable ACPI on original install, and keep it off (there is an
option under the installer where it asks you if you want to keep it off
for the future), otherwise it would hang immediately upon trying to boot.
Aside from that, the install went normally, and I've had zero problems
since. The RAID array works flawlessly, I had a drive blow out on one
machine, I just hot-swapped it with a new one, it rebuilt on the fly, and
no on ever noticed anything. No reboot needed, which is the way it should
work.
The machines are currently running main DNS services, plus Postfix with
SpamAssassin, and are our primary MX border servers which handle roughly
30-40k messages per day.
Hope this helps.
-Gary
Thanks
--
Cordialement
Frank Bonnet
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To do is to be -- Nietzsche
To be is to do -- Kant
Do be do be do -- Sinatra
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