I've used Debian (lenny+squeeze) for many years now in Python/Django development, and it's served me well.
But, you can easily turn a system into a nervous wreck if you don't configure it properly, or use "bleeding edge" without fully knowing whats happening. All distros of Linux are a learning curve, but here are some of the issues I came up against in Debian (some of which would apply to other flavors too) - Usage of DRBD + OCFS2 causes kernel deadlocks - The most common reason for a server dying, is due to it swapping out (personally, I disable swap, and rely on the kernels OOM-killer) - avoid this by ensuring you account for every single byte of memory being used. - Syncing multiple software RAIDs at the same time causes huge un-proportional RAID IO slowdown. - Most reliable stack so far is nginx+uwsgi+php fpm for fcgi. - use LXC containers to enforce memory limits (don't rely on limits.conf for this, seriously). - be careful when enabling chroot + pax restrictions in grsec, it can cause problems. Tons more, but I think these are the most common I came across. Cal On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Anoop Thomas Mathew <atm...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi All, > Firstly, I am not here for a distro war. > > I was using ubuntu 9.10, and then switched to fedora 14 and then to fedora > 15. > IMHO, It seems that they all were quite unstable. (Many times it hung up on > my Dell and HP machines - may be driver issues, still I don't want that > too.) > I would really like some recommendation for a linux distro which is much > stable, but still can support all relevant packages. > > Top recommendations I found around was Debian and OpenSuse. > Please revert with your suggestions. > > Thanks, > Anoop Thomas Mathew > > atm > ___ > Life is short, Live it hard. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
