On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 09:12:45AM +0100, Nigel Magnay via smartos-discuss wrote:
> 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 Suffice it to say that this doesn't happen to us. In the absence of crash dumps that could be used to identify and fix an OS bug if one exists, my strong suspicion is that you have broken hardware. If that's the case, you'll continue to have problems regardless of the OS you use. > If we were running at scale, or had a support contract with someone, or an > array of experts - we could probably find out why this was the case, and > learn which knobs to twiddle - but we don't, and I don't have the time any > more to be a pioneer.. ;-) You're hardly a pioneer; there are many thousands of these systems in production today (and have been for years). ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
