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 B0AC2138E20 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:36:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90FD6E0AEB; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:36:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-f42.google.com (mail-pb0-f42.google.com [209.85.160.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 791BEE0AC9 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:36:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f42.google.com with SMTP id jt11so3104021pbb.1 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:36:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+xCdk8vVwZBJNNiYZq4yYpaB3FIlTIp6bN1Ru4BjFfc=; b=AGSa7aN9SFpVLBdLDb1ZcDikLwB9BHW/Ay6Rn5nArLgIvDdjviTQ4QECHVd8jkV6NT NMnhnejir1lpTnXUPG72sXi2SdvAcdIK4izYqhVePzWTmRBTmla3vVmfvFLzPst+f79u wIgmUqKZ0K9Mx6KaYC1hYvZMde24KXCe4N95Rx2kIoAHQ1rRP3QveJs4OfIrJ8G2rM+7 w/rsLpakyVB951XYnZ0WMvcKzyNBu+cjLGUOI43SpxJOdEY/Hj3qkFMrfaeCj4ClrP1k W+EpVJ7vdC8p9baX1EjQeh5635ldbDEExQjL+0km+SyWth3fzTl83sfC0KeGMPebP/1q 7xwg== X-Received: by 10.67.5.7 with SMTP id ci7mr7317614pad.99.1392968166736; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:36:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.102] ([112.242.122.161]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id bz4sm18316842pbb.12.2014.02.20.23.36.02 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:36:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <530701D4.8000905@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:35:48 +0800 From: Franklin Wang User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 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: Andrew Savchenko CC: 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> <20140220183554.a638a6b63457b797511e7bef@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140220183554.a638a6b63457b797511e7bef@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 59d48456-0d71-4b20-a752-9100a4504d0d X-Archives-Hash: e16e4279a1ae80ad771868c737db050b Thanks for your help. The choice for HPC can be more free. I prepare to try it in datacenter, for FTP first, and then web server, mail server and so forth. Of course, I still think it's better to use rhel or suse for database, CRM and others. On 2014年02月20日 22:35, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:40:59 +0800 Franklin Wang wrote: >> I'm not familiar with gentoo server and cluster. So could you tell me >> the experience about them? Thanks. > We have successful experience with Gentoo on both production servers > (someone call this area "enterprise", though I dislike such name) and > HPC setups. > > In short, > Procs: > - fine-tuned setups; > - really large choice of components; > - high-performance setups (especially rocks for HPC); > - reduced attack surface; > - nontrivial attack surface; > - large system updates easy (comparted to e.g. RHEL4 -> RHEL5 > migration); > - easier to add and maintain out-of-tree software. > Cons: > - much longer time for initial setup; > - harder to apply routine updates; > - poorly suitable for tasks like: "create me this new service ASAP > (for which you don't have prepared images), preferably yesterday". > Other notes: > - requires more qualified personnel to maintain. > > Best regards, > Andrew Savchenko -- skype:touch21st, Gtalk:touch21st, Yahoo/MSN:franklinwang36@yahoo.com, Xing/Linkedin:Franklin Wang