Re: FC1 as a server

Michael Gargiullo wrote:

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 10:14, WipeOut wrote:

Michael Gargiullo wrote:

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 08:25, Fredrik Holmberg wrote:

What are your experiences on running Fedora (Core 1) as a server, in comparison to the former Red Hat 9 (Shrike)?

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Regards,
Fredrik Holmberg

We actually use it in several dozen servers without incident.  We maybe
the exception though.  We also run the SMP kernel without a problem.  We
have it running on dual AMD systems, Dual Intel, and Dual Intel Xeon
boxes.  We did have one boot problem on the dual xeon box, but we have
it running on one of the mail gateways, and it handles everything
nicely.

Have you done either a minimum install or a full install??

My minimum install is stable with SMP but my workstation install is not..

Interesting, I've got 12 machine across the country running with a
minimal installation (They run dhcpd, ntp, tftp, and perl scripts in
cron)

I have a mail server that started with a minimal install, but exim was
added, as was spamassassin, and clamscan.

I guess I always start with minimal installation, and only add the
functions I need the box to run.

Yea, thats how I would think servers should be, start with minimum install and then add only whats needed.. It is still strange that SMP appears to be stable on minimally installed systems while workstations and desktops seem to hang..

Then there are people who have installed "everything" who say their systems are stable.. its definately weird..