Re: [GENERAL] Gentoo for production DB server?

2004-09-07 Thread Gaetano Mendola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremiah Elliott wrote: | Gaetano Mendola wrote: | |> Barry S wrote: |> |>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Christine Desmuke" wrote: |>> |>>> Hello: |>>> |>>> At the risk of starting a flame-war, I'd like some more details on the |>>> use of Gentoo Li

Re: [GENERAL] Gentoo for production DB server?

2004-09-03 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Barry S wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Christine Desmuke" wrote: Hello: At the risk of starting a flame-war, I'd like some more details on the use of Gentoo Linux for a production PostgreSQL server. There have been a couple of comments lately that it is not such a great idea; does anyone h

Re: [GENERAL] Gentoo for production DB server?

2004-08-27 Thread Cott Lang
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 15:01, Greg Donald wrote: > when it obviously was not. The price was right and I knew going in I > wasn't getting a perfectly stable distro, but nevertheless they left me > with a broken machine on several occasions. Having a slightly faster > machine isn't worth the headach

Re: [GENERAL] Gentoo for production DB server?

2004-08-25 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Mark Gibson wrote: > We've now switched to RHEL3 (management decision - for support!), > which IMHO is an admin nightmare (but thats just RPM's for you). > We had to download and compile several important packages manually,

Re: [GENERAL] Gentoo for production DB server?

2004-08-25 Thread Greg Donald
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 08:46, Matthew Marlowe wrote: > Gentoo has alot of features, is amazingly customizeable, and can significantly > reduce long term systems maintenance costs -- but it isn't a silver bullet. You have > to take over some QA tasks that redhat/etc would otherwise be doing. > > W

Re: [GENERAL] Gentoo for production DB server?

2004-08-24 Thread Gavin M. Roy
I've been extremely happy with my gentoo boxes. I switched from Slackware over the past year or so after many years of Slackware zealotry. I have nothing bad to say about using Gentoo other than I personally wouldnt use portage/ebuilds for PostgreSQL. Personally I always have better experien

Re: [GENERAL] Gentoo for production DB server?

2004-08-24 Thread Greg Donald
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 16:33, Christine Desmuke wrote: > At the risk of starting a flame-war, I'd like some more details on the > use of Gentoo Linux for a production PostgreSQL server. There have been > a couple of comments lately that it is not such a great idea; does > anyone have specific experi

[GENERAL] Gentoo for production DB server?

2004-08-24 Thread Christine Desmuke
Hello: At the risk of starting a flame-war, I'd like some more details on the use of Gentoo Linux for a production PostgreSQL server. There have been a couple of comments lately that it is not such a great idea; does anyone have specific experience they'd be willing to share? Some background: we'