Nigel Magnay wrote:
You could avoid the pain by not downgrading to Linux....
I know it's not what you want to hear, but we're viewing it as an
upgrade. When we started, zfs and zones were highly compelling, and
linux had neither (well, that were usable). Today there's zfs support
and docker (which as injected some life into LXC), with stable APIs,
that third-party software supports (cf: smartos KVM, that I can't use
libvirt to talk to..).
The nail in the coffin for us, however, is it's just too unreliable
(for us) in production. Our host box goes down when it's put under any
kind of light stress (where down == locks solid, dead, no I/O,
nuthin'), and my confidence was pretty damaged when I discovered I can
repeatably lock solid in similar fashion a fresh install with 2Gb RAM
by compiling a kernel. You can demonstrate this repeatably with
VMWare. I count that as pretty unacceptable for a modern OS.
You could have asked here, the are plenty of us (not to mention Joyent!)
who have SmartOS systems suffering all sorts of torture in production
without any such issues.
--
Ian.
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