Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?

[thegeezer]

On 02/20/2014 12:53 AM, Facundo Curti wrote:
> I think a "more stable" distro is better for production. My choice is
> debian. I think you cant find nothing more stable that debian...
>
> >Gentoo makes the best server os because it's a custom built os where
> the admin knows each and every aspect of the os.
>
> This is true, but gentoo is a little unstable to use on production.
> The system must be on 365 days/year. ¿and 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...
>
the advantage of clustering servers though is you can take one out and
update it.   if you use a distributed compliation [1] and tell portage
to keep the binaries [2] you can take a few out and do them together,
then the remainder do not require compilation as the compile has been done.

> I think the best for a server is debian. I didn't try red hat but I
> see this like a commercial distro :/ Any way, red hat is very used as
> server. And if you choice to pay, you will have official support
> (Other wise, you are alone :/)
>
many of the cluster tools and services are actually written by redhat so
there is no surprise that there is much better integration.
however i would much rather put gentoo in a public facing domain where
you need the latest security patches always.
getting clustering to work with gentoo can be a bit of a pain if you are
just feeling your way

the big question really is what is the purpose of your cluster ?
shared database load?
load balanced web servers?
distributed file system?
distributed multi system multi cpu calculations?
distributed fast memory cache ?

each thing has a different set of tools and management thereof.
> P.D: I'm sorry if my english is not perfect, i speak spanish
>
>
> 2014-02-19 21:36 GMT-03:00 Franklin Wang <touch21st@×××××.com
> <mailto:touch21st@×××××.com>>:
>
>     Maybe it's intresting, although I prefer to use red hat, suse or
>     ubuntu in datacenter as Google. Slackware servers're not very
>     poppular here
>
>     On 2014年02月20日 08:14, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>>
>>     On 20 Feb 2014 05:12, "Franklin Wang" <touch21st@×××××.com
>>     <mailto:touch21st@×××××.com>> wrote:
>>     >
>>     > and what about slackware for server?
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > -------- Original Message --------
>>     > Subject:
>>     > How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?
>>     > Date:
>>     > Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:41:28 +0800
>>     > From:
>>     > Franklin Wang <touch21st@×××××.com <mailto:touch21st@×××××.com>>
>>     > To:
>>     > gentoo-server@l.g.o
>>     <mailto:gentoo-server@l.g.o>,
>>     gentoo-cluster@l.g.o
>>     <mailto:gentoo-cluster@l.g.o>
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > Hi all,
>>     >
>>     > I'm not familiar with gentoo server and cluster. So could you
>>     tell me
>>     > the experience about them? Thanks.
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > Franklin Wang
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>
>>     Gentoo makes the best server os because it's a custom built os
>>     where the admin knows each and every aspect of the os. Security
>>     wise, there are no unwanted or unused stuff, so lesser bugs to
>>     deal with.
>>
>>     Clustering, well, you can do that using glusterfs
>>
>
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[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distcc
[2]
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=3#doc_chap4