On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:16:46PM -0800, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback thus far. I should also mention I use freebsd
> for other stuff, but I am mainly asking in peoples experience, which is
> the best for PostgreSQL to live on specifically. In terms of a nice smp
> high end scsi system. Sorry for the lack of specifics on that before.
i've built several billing systems for long distance companies using pgsql
on FreeBSD since '97. i've found them to be quite stable and robust,
including uniprocessor and SMP, using raw big disks, hardware RAID, and also
the incumbent vinum software RAID.
i've found upgrading the core OS, as well as upgrading pgsql and other apps,
to be fairly clean and troublefree.
>
> Gavin
>
>
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>I'm currently one of the targets of SCO's linux licensing extortion
> >>business plan, and am contemplating switching to one of the BSD's to
> >>avoid any potential problems. I'm curious which BSD people prefer for
> >>large scale databases and why. Any pointers as to which I should test
> >>out?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >for the longest time, the BSDs have been split as:
> >
> >FreeBSD - i386 rock solid
> >NetBSD - work on as many platforms as possible
> >OpenBSD - be as secure as possible
> >
> >There is alot of code sharing between them all though, so, IMHO, alot of
> >it is personal preferences ... I've been using FreeBSD since '95, and
> >other then having a habit of finding (and, usually pushing) its limits,
> >I've been most happy with it ...
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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