Matt Juszczak wrote:
Hi all,
Some of you have read my posts from the previous few days but I am
really stuck right now. Sorry if this is repeated information for
anyone.
We're running FreeBSD at work on our main mail server, which is now
crashing 2 times per day. I need to find a new solution soon, or I
could risk losing my job which would really stink.
The machine itself is fine, and I know this because 1) I've tested the
memory and 2) This problem I am experiencing is occuring on more than
one machine.
OpenBSD is known for its stability, and I'm wondering what everyone's
opinion on stability would be with a SuperMicro Dual Xeon 3.06 ghz
(SMP) and 4 GM RAM, running postfix with LDAP and 10,000 users. If I
can get a stable system up and running I'll be really happy.
Apparently, there is something called a ttwakeup bug and there's some
SMP code problems in FreeBSD 5.4 that wasn't apparent in 4.11 (which
is why that runs stable for me) causing all these problems. I would
hope that with the branch off of OpenBSD these problems wouldn't exist
in the OS.
Any responses would be appreciated :)
Regards,
Matt
OpenBSD SMP support is pretty new, see
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#SMP.
It isn't super mature on FreeBSD either.
Brian
