From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80E5E138E20 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:25:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 045BBE0B6A; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:25:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a92.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaabbg.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.116]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF5CDE0B47 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:25:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a92.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a92.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5657F3DC06D for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 04:25:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=libertytrek.org; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s= libertytrek.org; bh=ZR8pIb3qdhMhaTfnhy/Z4T3to6c=; b=XdcBeljeXGvn aoGMZVlIiU/dBPILUOFE/v/sMamsKW/kr4jjRdt7GE9RUojznPRA+tZflZ2DsQys 4J8sLrbLDcWwO6DNIm1MWSRi9F3A0tKteX0fWsZkWnQG7lXPH0ZP1WN165HHgPa0 U8LvMpXxdhBh+ZN+o2qZjwxEciwTzpw= Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [159.63.145.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tanstaafl@libertytrek.org) by homiemail-a92.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 317EB3DC05B for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 04:25:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5305F403.3010606@libertytrek.org> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:24:35 -0500 From: Tanstaafl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment? References: <5297F0C8.3060403@gmail.com> <5305410B.1090403@gmail.com> <53054E16.70708@gmail.com> <5305EF52.7030303@libertytrek.org> In-Reply-To: <5305EF52.7030303@libertytrek.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: e77c9ce2-5508-48d3-9a4a-7515297d8966 X-Archives-Hash: fcd4f11fe959a48558567cb091d88004 On 2014-02-20 7:04 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2014-02-19 7:53 PM, Facundo Curti wrote: >> This is true, but gentoo is a little unstable to use on production. Th= e >> system must be on 365 days/year. =C2=BFand when you need to update the >> system? This will use all the processor and the system will be >> overloaded. This means users can't use the system when this is >> updating... > > That is such total FUD I just can't even say anything else about it > without using some unsavory words. > > I had an old underpowered server (only 2GB of RAM) that supported about > 100 users using IMAP to access their huge maildir mailstores (some user= s > have 20+GB of mail). > > I kept the thing updated on a regular basis, and the only time it ever > went down was to reboot after a kernel upgrade. And I neglected a main factor - this server was running and serving this=20 many users and being updated simultaneously like this for about 9 YEARS. I only just recently (in the last couple of months) replaced it with a=20 shiny new gentoo VM running on my shiny new vmWare host, and I only did=20 that because I wanted to enable dovecots on disk indexes but couldn't do=20 that without adding more RAM and more disk space to the old box, and=20 since I had a shiny new vmWare host, it only made sense to ditch the old=20 box.