On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:27:00AM +0100, Jean-Fabrice RABAUTE wrote: > A client want to change it SUN machine to a PC for the machine running > AOLServer. > Do you have some recommandations about which free system is the best for > AOLServer ? FreeBSD, Debian, Redhat, other ?
They should all work fine, people here have used AOLserver on all of those. Go with what you're most familiar with maintaining, supporting software on, etc. If you have no preference, pick a Linux over FreeBSD simply because more people here (and on openacs.org as well) seem to use Linux than BSD. (I personally like Debian the best. Red Hat is ok; it's little chkconfig tool is actually quote nice once you get used to it. My boring static website is hosted on a shared FreeBSD server which I've been happy with, but I've never run AOLserver there.) Although I haven't seen any good numbers, for high-end applications there might be some performance differences to notice. E.g.: An earlier poster here said the older most stable FreeBSD threads library can't share threads across multiple CPUs on an SMP, so if you have an SMP and care about this you'd want to look into FreeBSDs newer threads libraries. The New Posix Threads Library shipped in recent version of Red Hat might make AOLserver faster or more scaleable. But of course NPTL will come stock with any 2.6.x kernel, and it's just a matter of time before all the distributions adopt that. But if your performance was even borderline adequate on the Sun box, you really don't care about any BSD or Linux platform-dependent performance differences, because any new x86 box is pretty much guaranteed to be MUCH faster than the old Sun! -- Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.piskorski.com/ -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
