On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:11:11AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: | On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:02:17AM -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote: | | > In any case, I guess the fact that auric has been running Sparc Linux | > for some time now (more than a year?) is a testament to how solid Linux | > on Sparc is. The workload on auric must be pretty high at all times, | > from all points of view (network, CPU, disk I/O, etc.) | | It's definitely a workhorse, and it tasks most of the primary kernel | subsystems. | | For those interested, auric.debian.org (aka ftp-master.debian.org) is an | UltraSPARC 60 with dual 450mhz UltraSPARC II's and 2 gigs of RAM. | Attached is a Netra A1000 RAID array, with 10 36gig drives (~245 gigs of | RAID 5 with 2 hotspares). | | It's processes include postgresql (which handles the database of all our | packages, 10's of thousands of them). All incoming packages built by | developers are uploaded to this machine, which processes the incoming | packages every 15 minutes, placing them into a queue. Once a day, it | moves all of the packages into the main archive on the RAID, regenerates | the Packages listings, and begins a mirror push to the tier 1 mirrors. | | That may not sound like much, but it can easily kill most machines, and | will generally pop up some strange bugs.
Sounds convincing to me. I'll go for the 2.4.19-pre8 then. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
