------------------- > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 02:30:18PM -0500, Alfonso Baqueiro wrote: > > Is Debian HP port good enough to be used in production > > enviroment on a HP9000? > > YMMV. > > www.parisc-linux.org (a500) goes down every couple of weeks > since we upgraded to a 2.6 kernel. But it could be due to the very > buggy bcm5700 NICs that are installed. > I've asked those be replaced with HP A6825A (bcm5701) or bcm5703 NICs. > Other folks have very good experience with 32-bit kernels on workstations > (e.g B180,c3000) and 64-bit kernels on servers like a500.
Just for the records: http://www.pateam.org/realisations.html If you look at netcraft (http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?host=www.pateam.org) you'll see over 380 days max uptime for that webserver (a B180) btw. I've been stressing both a A500 and a L1000 under heavy load (building Ubuntu Linux), and 2.6.8.1 proved rock solid. Several hundreds days uptime on these machines aren't unheard of :) It's nonetheless true that late kernels, though including new features and perf improvements, might be a tad more buggy. Feel free to help fixing the bugs ;) Here's my personnal MTA (a 712 running postfix/mailman!): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a; uptime Linux FLCL 2.6.0-pa1 #1 Mon Dec 22 14:00:43 CET 2003 parisc GNU/Linux 09:48:24 up 479 days, 22:56, 1 user, load average: 0.98, 0.57, 0.32 As you can see, the kernel has been built, the box booted and never taken down since then ;) Of course that doesn't prove anything, but that can give hints. In any case, "Your Mileage May Vary", as Grant said :) > > Does anyone know of a technical comparision? > > Overall, HPUX kernel supports *less* HW (e.g. PCI-PCMCIA adapter > or wireless cards) and has fewer free SW packages than debian. > gfx and audio are indeed badly supported by the parisc-linux port > as already pointed out. But I expect the things that are available > for HPUX to be solid. Audio *is* getting better! Harmony works, AD1889 is getting there too (thanks Kyle! ;) Of course, video (FX cards) is another story, but hopefully that doesn't matter much for a *server*. HTH -- Thibaut VARENE http://www.pateam.org/
