Tom, > You are asking the wrong question. The best OS is the OS you (and/or > the customer) knows and can administer competently.
I'll have to 2nd this. > The real > performance differences between unices are so small as to be ignorable > in this context. Well, at least the difference between Linux and BSD. There are substantial tradeoffs should you chose to use Solaris or UnixWare. > The context switching bug is not OS-dependent, but > varys in severity across machine architectures (I understand it to be > mostly P4/Athlon related, but don't take my word for it). The bug is at its apparent worst on multi-processor HT Xeons and weak northbridges running Linux 2.4. However, it has been demonstrated (with lesser impact) on Solaris/Sparc, PentiumIII, and Athalon. Primarily it seems to affect data warehousing applications. Your choice of OS is not affected by this bug. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])