Re: Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Lamar Owen wrote:

> On Wednesday 27 June 2001 16:15, Alex Knight wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > > Disagreed over here, with 4+ years of experience 24x7 on RHL since RHL
> > > 4.1.
>
> > This 4+ years 24/7 experience isn't on that server you said was for
> > internal purposes with low load you mentioned in a previous post, is it?
>
> No. This one has been streaming our RealAudio stream 24x7 since May 1, 1997
> (minus a few hours for maintenance -- you know, things like replacing failed
> power supplies, replacing/installing hard drives, upgradingthe OS, etc.
> Still running the same Super Micro dual PPro 200 motherboard -- but 192MB now
> instead of the 64MB we started with. ECC, of course. Will be replacing with
> the 'lightly loaded' PIII-600 w/ 1GB as soon as Real Networks supports kernel
> 2.4.) -- along with mail, DNS, and seven domains worth of webservice. Not
> terribly heavy loaded -- but we can and do saturate our T1.

Even though it may appear that your server is doing a lot, it's not facing
the load of a highly scaled enterprise level e-commerce site, where RedHat
just doesn't cut it.

I have a T1 to my house, and I saturate it all the time... without load :)

-Knight