A lot of Windows admins like the Ubuntu server, http://www.ubuntu.com/server Personally, CentOS is the best, when you have no option for Slackware, of course .. :)
On 02/22/11 17:00, Alejandro Guerrieri wrote: > We use CentOS since 3.x (latest is 5.x) with very good results, but any > recent distro should work fine. > > Regards, > > Alex > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Richard Crawshaw > <richard.craws...@callparents.com <mailto:richard.craws...@callparents.com>> > wrote: > > OK, many thanks. That means that we need a Linux box to run Kannel on. > However, I'm not really familiar with Linux, is there a recommended > distribution > that Kannel runs best on, or any that are best avoided? > > Regards > Richard > > > -----Original Message----- > From: users-boun...@kannel.org <mailto:users-boun...@kannel.org> > [mailto:users-boun...@kannel.org <mailto:users-boun...@kannel.org>] On Behalf > Of Stipe Tolj > Sent: 21 February 2011 16:47 > Cc: users@kannel.org <mailto:users@kannel.org> > Subject: Re: Kannel HTTP locking up > > Am 21.02.2011 13:58, schrieb Richard Crawshaw: > > Hi > > > > I'm having a problem that looks like Kannel's SMS box HTTP listener is > locking up. > > > > I've been running some load tests on Kannel, sending out 30K messages > over a > > short space of time. > > > > I am running Kannel version 1.5.0 under Windows using Cygwin. I have > no problem > > if it is running on my Windows 7 laptop, 32 bit 2.68G RAM, 2.53GHz. > However, > > when it is running on one of our servers it locks up after about 24K > messages. > > The server is Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition SP2, 2GHz > with 8G RAM. > > > > The only difference between the two is the Kannel configuration file > which > > points the log files to different places in the file system. Both > instances of > > Kannel were compiled from the same source code on the target machines > using the > > latest version of Cygwin. > > > > The server isn't under a heavy load. It is also running IIS. > > > > After Kannel locks up there are no further entries added to its log > files and > > from what I've found the only solution is to stop and restart it. > There doesn't > > appear to be anything additional logged from the server that isn't > logged from > > my laptop. > > > > Has anyone else seen anything like this before? Any clues to what may > be the > > cause or possible solutions would be greatly appreciated. > > > > I can post logs and config file if needed. > > Cygin's pthreads, which Kannel uses heavily is NOT(!) stable. That's the > simple > reason. This is BTW also the reason why Cygwin never packaged the mysql > server. > So, there is NO way to use Kannel on Cygwin for real production use. > > Stipe > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Kölner Landstrasse 419 > 40589 Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany > > tolj.org <http://tolj.org> system architecture Kannel Software > Foundation (KSF) > http://www.tolj.org/ http://www.kannel.org/ > > mailto:st_{at}_tolj.org <mailto:st_%7Bat%7D_tolj.org> > mailto:stolj_{at}_kannel.org <mailto:stolj_%7Bat%7D_kannel.org> > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >
