+++ Shridhar Daithankar [linux-india] <27/11/01 14:23 +0530>:
> Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> >installed 8.0. It was running mandrake 7.2 perfectly, with the stock
> >2.2.17
> >or whatever kernel. 8.0 = random kernel panics every few hours (likely
> >caused by a hassle it had with the SCSI controller on the server I guess).
>
> That's netfinity server isn't it? You talked about that, I remember..
yep. IBM Netfinities - wonderfully stable (and powerful and expensive)
beasts, normally.
> I agree. No way you can install MDK below 500MB.
Basically the more stuff that's installed on a server that you don't need and
don't use, the more the chance of local or remote exploits that you don't
know about.
> That't true. I just checked my mandrake account. Recent kernel devfs
> vulnarability+gnupg+security alert for tetex etc. May be a download around
> 100MB so far..
Kernel devfs = critical. Who needs TeX or PGP on a server install?
> But since I am runing 2.4.13-8mdk from cooker(I know it's a bad idea for a
> prodution server but I was feeling adventurous few days back..;-) I am not
As long as it runs, then cool.
> P.S. To tell you a joke, one day I was surprised when I found that a vi
> instance was taking 103MB memory. Later I found that one of my colleague
> was editing gene database which was 100MB in size. Any doze version
> constantly crashed opening that text file. (We have minimum 256MB RAM
> machines). Funy isn't it?
Heh. He should have tried it with "Eighty Megs And Swapping Constantly" :)
-srs
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <----> mallet <at> efn dot org
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