On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Brodie, Kent wrote: > The servers I've built 4 years ago were running RHEL 4, or even 3 in > some cases. All since migrated to RHEL5. With the pace of today's > software development (apps, OS, etc)-- will you *really* still have > this very server build in 2014? > > RHEL5 is nearing end-of-development with RHEL6 just around the corner. > I cannot imagine that ANY of my servers (hundreds..) will still be > running RHEL5 after 2013.... > > Building a nagios/etc server (as you listed) is something that I think > could easily be done in well under a day. > > At least for me, the "future proofing" argument kind of fails here, > unless you have some kind of "ok, it's finished, we're not going to > touch it for almost half a decade" policy. You hinted at that, but I > have to offer the opinion anyway... > > Those comments aside-- there are obviously plusses and minuses to the > 32-bit/64-bit case. And unless you have a server with a large amount > of physical memory, the issue is really a matter of preference - which > your boss has, and well, you work for him... see Adam's comments > about emotion getting in the way :-)
what do you consider 'a large amount of physical memory'? just about anything outside of the embedded space now includes enough memory to run into the limits of a pure 32 bit system. David Lang > I know this group, and there's going to be tons of arguments for either > side of the fence. Maybe go un-scientific, and just tally the > results? ;-) > > --Kent > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
