kahunaburger

The new server hardware, a cheapo refurbished Acer desktop PC, arrived about a week ago. In my spare time I installed FreeBSD 7.0 on it and started to configure all the pieces I need on the server. After running into an issue with the GENERIC kernel of 7.0, I opened a trouble ticket with FreeBSD team and it was suggested to give version 8.0-CURRENT a try. I upgraded all the kernel and userland sources and rebuilt everything. Quite nice to see a “make -j6 …” rebuild everything in a few minutes.
The 8.0-CURRENT sources did not correct my problem, but at least I was able to modify the sources to avoid the “panic [y/n]?” question during startup.

Below are some specs of the system - I think we have enough head-room on this guy for some time to come:

santafe# uname -a
FreeBSD santafe.kahunaburger.com 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #3:
Mon May 19 11:56:08 MDT 2008     thoellri@santafe.kahunaburger.com:
/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

santafe# df -kl
Filesystem  1024-blocks     Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad4s1a   147304642 23573916 111946356    17%    /
devfs                 1        1         0   100%    /dev
/dev/ad8s1d   117804484 18175874  90204252    17%    /disk2
/dev/ad8s1e   118701252 19324964  89880188    18%    /disk3

santafe# top -b | head -5
last pid: 12922;  load averages:  0.12,  0.56,  0.51  up 0+15:04:57    07:00:11
56 processes:  1 running, 55 sleeping

Mem: 107M Active, 2791M Inact, 158M Wired, 36M Cache, 112M Buf, 168M Free
Swap: 8192M Total, 56K Used, 8192M Free

santafe# swapinfo
Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
/dev/ad4s1b       4194304       56  4194248     0%
/dev/md0          4194304        0  4194304     0%
Total             8388608       56  8388552     0%
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