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Hi, |
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On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:40:59 +0800 Franklin Wang wrote: |
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> I'm not familiar with gentoo server and cluster. So could you tell me |
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> the experience about them? Thanks. |
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We have successful experience with Gentoo on both production servers |
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(someone call this area "enterprise", though I dislike such name) and |
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HPC setups. |
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In short, |
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Procs: |
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- fine-tuned setups; |
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- really large choice of components; |
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- high-performance setups (especially rocks for HPC); |
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- reduced attack surface; |
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- nontrivial attack surface; |
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- large system updates easy (comparted to e.g. RHEL4 -> RHEL5 |
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migration); |
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- easier to add and maintain out-of-tree software. |
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Cons: |
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- much longer time for initial setup; |
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- harder to apply routine updates; |
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- poorly suitable for tasks like: "create me this new service ASAP |
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(for which you don't have prepared images), preferably yesterday". |
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Other notes: |
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- requires more qualified personnel to maintain. |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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