Letting the chips fall where they may, I quote Chris Mauritz:
>> Sorry Alan, but you make a good straight-man. I simply couldn't
>> resist, having several dozen NT boxes here. Our average Linux box
>> is up 100 times longer than our average NT box, 'on average'. :)
>
>I'm currently running a network with about 250 hosts at several locations
>around the US, most of which are NT. However, it's noteworthy that all of
>the machines that are doing the real "heavy lifting" are running either
>linux (RH 5.2) or Solaris.
Well, just to add my own story(s)...
A few years ago, we were running low on server hardware for virtual web
hosts (it took time to order _anything_) so I aquired one of the old 486's
from the helpdesk -- one HP Vectra/VL2... 486dx2-66. We loaded it to 32M
of RAM and plugged a 2.1G IDE hard drive into and off it went. 8 months
later, it had 35 medium volume sites on it and had yet to be even hinted
at replacement. Of the hundred+ sites we had at the time, the little 486
linux box never got any complaints or had to be babied constantly. The
6k$ Sparc5 (110MHz microSparc II, 192M, 2.1G FSCSI-2) had to have web
sites poked everyday or so and constantly drew complaints...
Just today, I replaced an Ultra10's solaris installation with linux. For
some yet-to-be-explained reason, solaris kept leaking drive space and
leaving "deleted" files in the filesystem with a link count of zero.
(It's damned hard to deal with ghost files.) We shall see if linux
lives there any better -- personally, I think Sun should be taken out
and shot for loading the new sparcs with IDE drives; and what's with
that upside down case?
>Typical uptime for an NT server is generally measured in weeks while
>the linux/solaris boxes generally stay up until we need to either
>physically move them or add/remove hardware to the system. Depending
Well, having used a wide variety of OSen... the OS is generally as
stable as the (crappy) applications you make it run. Everything can
be crashed -- there are always bugs. I have a solaris box that used
to be a RADIUS server that has been up for over a year. (In fact,
it's not be rebooted since it was placed in the rack... back in Oct.
1997.)
>Readers Digest Version: You want a scalable and robust platform
>for mission critical file servers? Avoid NT like the plague.
If only it were that simple...
--Ricky
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