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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Is there any evidence of the above
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Is there any evidence of the above claim? I've seen a link to a l-k
bug report about ext3, but apparently it was totally unconfirmed
(and a single bug does not mean a FS is not good - I remember XFS
being hammered heavily before being accepted into Linux)
>> Can I expect that a software developed on Linux will run and compile
>> on FreeBSD (since both use GCC)?
>>
> In general yes. Sometimes they do require some tweaks though.
Specially if they rely heavily on threads (i.e mysql, freeradius, etc)
I have some implementation issues with this (i.e.
I run Postgres on Gentoo and it works fine.
By the way, I have to tell that the best linux is Gentoo.
Mage
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I disagree on number 1, in fact , untar, cd, ./configure, make, make install
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I disagree on number 1, in fact , untar, cd, ./configure, make, make install
is all you have to do on BSD, not RPM nightmares, at least on Freebsd and
OpenBSD, not sure of
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On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 03:23:47PM -0200, Bruno Almeida do Lago wrote:
Any info about NetBSD?
That's all we use - no problems, so never had to do any comparisons..
Hmmm, with that attitude, we'd all still be riding ho
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I disagree on number 1, in fact , untar, cd, ./configure, make, make install
is all you have to do on BSD, not RPM nightmares, at least on Freebsd and
OpenBSD, not sure of NetBSD, I agreee on all others comments
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I didn't see the post asking about NetBSD, but I can answer it a bit:
I think NetBSD is like other BSD in that:
1. untar, cd, ./conf
lf Of Geoffrey
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Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 03:23:47PM -0200, Bruno Almeida do Lago wrote:
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>>Any info about NetBSD?
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> That's all
I didn't see the post asking about NetBSD, but I can answer it a bit:
I think NetBSD is like other BSD in that:
1. untar, cd, ./configure, make, install doesn't usually work. They
put stuff in different places and not everyone in the Linux world cares
enough to account for them.
2. Out of the
Patrick Welche wrote:
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 03:23:47PM -0200, Bruno Almeida do Lago wrote:
Any info about NetBSD?
That's all we use - no problems, so never had to do any comparisons..
Hmmm, with that attitude, we'd all still be riding horse and buggies..
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On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 03:23:47PM -0200, Bruno Almeida do Lago wrote:
> Any info about NetBSD?
That's all we use - no problems, so never had to do any comparisons..
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On Friday 21 January 2005 11:23 am, Bruno Almeida do Lago wrote:
> Any info about NetBSD?
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> Bruno
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Recent OS benchmarks (nothing specific to PostgreSQL) were compared to
FreeBSD 5.3 and posted at:
http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/gmcgarry/
I don't know enough to apply the information to the discus
Any info about NetBSD?
Bruno
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From: Matthew Story [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 3:16 PM
To: Bruno Almeida do Lago
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for the stability of BSD you should look into their development
categories
Esteban Kemp wrote:
I'm starting to develop a production enviroment with Postgres and
Tomcat, And I have to choose between some free linux distribution like:
whitebox
RHEL
Fedora
Suse
Which is the better distribution in terms of postgres? if this has an answer
If you are looking for boxes to r
--On Saturday, January 08, 2005 11:14 AM -0300 Esteban Kemp
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm starting to develop a production enviroment with Postgres and Tomcat,
And I have to choose between some free linux distribution like:
whitebox
RHEL
Fedora
Suse
Which is the better distribution in terms of p
On Friday 21 January 2005 07:40, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
We are running a 200 user system off a SUN Fire v40z using SuSE Linux 9.2 for
AMD64.
On average we process a JSP page in 300 ms, country wide and have
approximately 300 tables with over 3 000 000 records in the PostgresQL DB.
I would reco
On Thursday 20 January 2005 09:20 pm, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Does it have to be linux? I've never had as much success with
> > PostGresql on linux as i have on FreeBSD 5.3
>
> For XFS? I don't think you are going to have with FreeBSD and XFS.
> If IIRC (some freebsd p
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Does it have to be linux? I've never had as much success with PostGresql on
linux as i have on FreeBSD 5.3
For XFS? I don't think you are going to have with FreeBSD and XFS.
If IIRC (some freebsd person please chime in) that is one thing
that Linux has over FreeBSD whic
David Garamond wrote:
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Well that isnt exactly true. EXT3 is a bolt on to EXT2 which was always
there. Reiser is also a long time kernel at least from 2.2.
I remember first using reiser3 by patching early 2.4 kernels. IIRC,
reiser was not in linus tree until 2.4.7 or so (not
Does it have to be linux? I've never had as much success with PostGresql on
linux as i have on FreeBSD 5.3
matt
Quoting David Garamond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Well that isnt exactly true. EXT3 is a bolt on to EXT2 which was always
> > there. Reiser is also a long time
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Well that isnt exactly true. EXT3 is a bolt on to EXT2 which was always
there. Reiser is also a long time kernel at least from 2.2.
I remember first using reiser3 by patching early 2.4 kernels. IIRC,
reiser was not in linus tree until 2.4.7 or so (not sure which release)
a
^
Is there any evidence of the above claim? I've seen a link to a l-k
bug report about ext3, but apparently it was totally unconfirmed
(and a single bug does not mean a FS is not good - I remember XFS
being hammered heavily before being accepted into Li
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I think you forget the origins of the XFS filesystem. XFS was
originally created for SGI's IRIX operating system, and specifically
designed for handling large files and filesystems at high speeds. It
is very fast, and quite well tested: it was in h
Alle 10:09, giovedì 20 gennaio 2005, Bruno Almeida do Lago ha scritto:
> I still opt for Slackware simplicity and stability. Nothing better than a
> well configured Slackware box with XFS file system and PostgreSQL! =)
>
> C Ya,
> Bruno
For a generic use of postgresql, binary packages in any linu
I think the filesystem you choose depends what you are looking for.
Ext3 is by far the most tested and most stable out the file systems
available. It is basically just ext2 with journalling stuck on top
(and a few other niceities). XFS may well be faster but is perhaps not
so well tested or as stab
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
No difference whatsoever from PostgreSQL's point of view. Use whichever
distribution is easiest for you to administer. After all, there's no
point installing Postgres on a machine you don't know how to maintain
or tune :)
Act
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To: Martijn van Oosterhout; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Best Linux Distribution
When I had customers faced with this decision, we made the
recommendation based on which distro employs major contributors
of the software project in question.
For Postgresql's
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:39:23 +0200 (EET), Devrim GUNDUZ
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> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Guy Rouillier wrote:
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> >> On whitebox & RHEL ext3 is really the only choice. However, FC3
> >> provides all the other major fil
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Guy Rouillier wrote:
On whitebox & RHEL ext3 is really the only choice. However, FC3
provides all the other major filesystems as choices (XFS, reiser).
I just tried to install FC3 AMD64, and the only choice it would give me
for
Guy Rouillier wrote:
Lonni J Friedman wrote:
On whitebox & RHEL ext3 is really the only choice. However, FC3
provides all the other major filesystems as choices (XFS, reiser).
I just tried to install FC3 AMD64, and the only choice it would give me
for an installation was ext3. Since I pr
Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>
> On whitebox & RHEL ext3 is really the only choice. However, FC3
> provides all the other major filesystems as choices (XFS, reiser).
I just tried to install FC3 AMD64, and the only choice it would give me
for an installation was ext3. Since I prefer Reiser, I gave u
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:19:33 -0800, Bricklen Anderson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> >
> >> No difference whatsoever from PostgreSQL's point of view. Use whichever
> >> distribution is easiest for you to administer. After all, there's no
> >>
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
Out of curiousity, which fs would you recommend for a ~terabyte oltp db?
XFS without a doubt. XFS has excellent large file (and filesystem) support.
I second the XFS statement.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:03:31 -0800, Joshua D. Drake
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>
> >No difference whatsoever from PostgreSQL's point of view. Use whichever
> >distribution is easiest for you to administer. After all, there's no
> >point installing Postgres on a mach
When I had customers faced with this decision, we made the
recommendation based on which distro employs major contributors
of the software project in question.
For Postgresql's case, RedHat's employment of Tom made
our recommendation to use Red Hat.
Some of our clients are running .NET front ends,
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
No difference whatsoever from PostgreSQL's point of view. Use whichever
distribution is easiest for you to administer. After all, there's no
point installing Postgres on a machine you don't know how to maintain
or tune :)
Actually there is a d
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
No difference whatsoever from PostgreSQL's point of view. Use whichever
distribution is easiest for you to administer. After all, there's no
point installing Postgres on a machine you don't know how to maintain
or tune :)
Actually there is a difference from PostgreS
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Best Linux Distribution
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> On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Esteban Kemp wrote:
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>> I'm starting to develop a production enviroment with Postgres and
>> Tomca
Devrim GUNDUZ wrote:
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Hi,
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Esteban Kemp wrote:
I'm starting to develop a production enviroment with Postgres and
Tomcat, And I have to choose between some free linux distribution like:
whitebox
RHEL
RHEL is not free (of charge).
Fed
No difference whatsoever from PostgreSQL's point of view. Use whichever
distribution is easiest for you to administer. After all, there's no
point installing Postgres on a machine you don't know how to maintain
or tune :)
Hope this helps,
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 11:14:00AM -0300, Esteban Kemp wro
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Hi,
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Esteban Kemp wrote:
I'm starting to develop a production enviroment with Postgres and Tomcat, And I
have to choose between some free linux distribution like:
whitebox
RHEL
RHEL is not free (of charge).
Fedora
Suse
SLES is again
I'm starting to develop a production enviroment
with Postgres and Tomcat, And I have to choose between some free linux
distribution like:
whiteboxRHELFedora
Suse
Which is the better distribution in terms of
postgres? if this has an answer
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