Hi Barry, So you use Visual Studio for developing under Windows - this could make a difference rather than fighting with DJGCC. Whatever happens, I will have to learn Linux, and brush up on my C a bit. You have a very interesting note about the page serving under Solaris compared to NT. Once upon a time, I noticed some strange problems under NT with small files (not under a web server though) - the cache does funny things to files, like you can update a file, and it will not be flushed to disk immediately - and if you read the file again, there is good chance that you will read the file as it was before you updated it. We wrote a quick and dirty workaround here, and made our program wait 1 sec before re-reading (on NT4 SP3 French version) - maybe your slowdown is due to Microsoft adding an NT disk - cache synching and verification ? Anyway, I'll sweet-talk visual studio into working, install the source files of AOLServer, and kick my development box until it works!! Thanks for your encouragement, Daniel Barry Books <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've run AOL on NT, Linux and Solaris. I've run NT 4 since it existed and Unix for about 20 years. I've found AOL to be more stable on Unix than NT, but NT is stable enough to run in production if you run monitoring software ( and you should on Unix also ). I've standardized on Sun Netra X1. They are small, light, rackmountable, don't use much power and cost $995. I don't have any numbers ( except for the acs dev support stuff ) but they seem much faster than the NT boxes also. The Sun is a single 500 and NT was dual 733, but the Sun returns pages twice (yes twice) as fast.
I've encounted 3 differences between the Unix and NT platform. 1. Newlines mostly work but sometimes on mulitline queries I get Oracle errors when I move the code. 2. ACS templates seem to have a different root directory 3. I've has issues with binary data on NT In spite of these minor problems it's totally practical to develope on NT and deploy on Unix As far as building AOL I've managed to do it on NT, but it took me about a week to get everthing to work, but I'm definatly not a Visual Studio expert. On Solaris the problems are different. You'll spend a day tracking down and installing all the dev tools. After that you really can just type make. In theory you could run Solaris on Intel or Linux on Sparc but I would not recommend it. The bottom line is if you can't run Unix, AOLserver works just fine. If you can it works better. Barry Books --------------------------------- Nokia Game is on again. Click here to join the new all media adventure before November 3rd.
