DragonFly 64-bit stability

Francois Tigeot ftigeot at wolfpond.org
Fri Jun 18 04:35:17 PDT 2010


On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 10:52:44AM +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> I'm thinking of upgrading one server from 2GB to 6GB of memory.
> 
> Since the regular DragonFly/i386 version will not be able to fully use it, I'm
> also considering upgrading the OS to Dragonfly/x86-64.
> 
> The machine is mainly running Postgres, Apache and Ruby (fast-cgi) for use
> with a Ruby-on-Rails application.
> 
> What is your experience with the 64-bit version ? Is it now stable enough to
> be used in a server ?

For the archives, I have now upgraded this server to DragonFly/x86-64. It has
been running for a little bit less than a week and is rock solid.

I just had to be careful to not set LANG in my shell.

I have opened a bug entry for this problem:
http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issue1782

-- 
Francois Tigeot





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