Alex Knight <knight@phunc.com> writes:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Lamar Owen wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday 27 June 2001 16:15, Alex Knight wrote:
> > > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > > > Disagreed over here, with 4+ years of experience 24x7 on RHL since RHL
> > > > 4.1.
> >
> > > This 4+ years 24/7 experience isn't on that server you said was for
> > > internal purposes with low load you mentioned in a previous post, is it?
> >
> > No. This one has been streaming our RealAudio stream 24x7 since May 1, 1997
> > (minus a few hours for maintenance -- you know, things like replacing failed
> > power supplies, replacing/installing hard drives, upgradingthe OS, etc.
> > Still running the same Super Micro dual PPro 200 motherboard -- but 192MB now
> > instead of the 64MB we started with. ECC, of course. Will be replacing with
> > the 'lightly loaded' PIII-600 w/ 1GB as soon as Real Networks supports kernel
> > 2.4.) -- along with mail, DNS, and seven domains worth of webservice. Not
> > terribly heavy loaded -- but we can and do saturate our T1.
>
> Even though it may appear that your server is doing a lot, it's not facing
> the load of a highly scaled enterprise level e-commerce site, where RedHat
> just doesn't cut it.
That claim is bogus. Red Hat Linux is the number one linux by far in
enterprise deployments.
--
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
