I'm glad to hear you have such great experiences too. emerge -pu world is worth checking, but I've learned that emerge -pu --deep world is even worse ;-)
At home I have a box with an uptime of 150 days, Oracle running. I've never had any crashes so far and i don't expect any. This is the most stable Linux I've seen (the second most stable is my old times favorite: Slackware) Cheers Bram On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 21:46, Ian Neubert wrote: > I've got 6 servers (3 Apache, 2 LVS load balancers, 1 Jabber/DNS) running > Gentoo currently and they've been great so far. The Apache servers each get > about 116,000 hits per day and have uptime of 47 days (since the day they > were built). > > My Jabber server has been up 55 days with no trouble, which has outlasted my > RedHat 7.3 box that was previously on this hardware (used to get random > Jabber crashes, on the same Jabber version btw). Though that could be many > different factors, Gentoo has been nice and stable for me. > > Just be careful what you do with emerge -up world, I've found it important > to verify what its going to do incase you have to deal with new config files > or with custom compile options that you've used or things of that sort. > > ....................... > Ian Neubert > Director of IS > TWAcomm.com, Inc. > http://www.twacomm.com/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 11:28 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a server > > > Hi! > > Is gentoo enough stable to act as a server? I mean that it uses the latest > development stage for all program. Debian proposes a stable release and a > unstable one. What can we do with gentoo? > > Michel > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- .:|:. Linux! May the Open Source be with you! |o o| http://www.menteb.org /. V .\ |/| |\| \W W/ DON'T PANIC! GnuPG key http://www.menteb.org/bram.gpg Key ID: 2F307829 @ http://pgp.mit.edu/ Fingerprint CAE0 F924 9590 4D99 7EB5 0A12 D0C7 63C2 2F30 7829 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
