On 2014-02-20 7:04 AM, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote:
On 2014-02-19 7:53 PM, Facundo Curti <facu.cu...@gmail.com> wrote:
This is true, but gentoo is a little unstable to use on production. The
system must be on 365 days/year. ¿and when you need to update the
system? This will use all the processor and the system will be
overloaded. This means users can't use the system when this is
updating...
That is such total FUD I just can't even say anything else about it
without using some unsavory words.
I had an old underpowered server (only 2GB of RAM) that supported about
100 users using IMAP to access their huge maildir mailstores (some users
have 20+GB of mail).
I kept the thing updated on a regular basis, and the only time it ever
went down was to reboot after a kernel upgrade.
And I neglected a main factor - this server was running and serving this
many users and being updated simultaneously like this for about 9 YEARS.
I only just recently (in the last couple of months) replaced it with a
shiny new gentoo VM running on my shiny new vmWare host, and I only did
that because I wanted to enable dovecots on disk indexes but couldn't do
that without adding more RAM and more disk space to the old box, and
since I had a shiny new vmWare host, it only made sense to ditch the old
box.
