Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, August 07, 2014 10:36:35 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: Which operating systems does you Hadoop systems run on top of? We use RedHat, although we make a fair amount of custom RPMs. It's just too much having to deal with Gentoo while maintaining high performance filesystems and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-08 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Fri 08 Aug 2014 02:29:55 AM EDT, J. Roeleveld wrote: If you already make custom RPMs, why not build binary packages for a Gentoo based cluster? I was mistaken last night (probably a little tired, been driving all day) - we use RedHat for the support and because the software we run usually

[gentoo-user] Re: Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-07 Thread James
Alec Ten Harmsel alec at alectenharmsel.com writes: I'm a Hadoop and related software sysadmin at the University of Michigan. I'm a student still, so it's only a part-time position. I have some documentation at http://caen.github.io/hadoop - if something is not clear, I will gladly take

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-07 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
Which operating systems does you Hadoop systems run on top of? We use RedHat, although we make a fair amount of custom RPMs. It's just too much having to deal with Gentoo while maintaining high performance filesystems and schedulers, which are apparently a real pain. Whilst research, I ran