On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 07:21 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:01:10AM +0200, Roger wrote: > > I installed FC5 x86_64 to run Qmail on it and the consequences were > > disastrous, every 4-7 days the machine kept going down, i was losing > > What was causing the machine to go down? I know the unpatched version of > Qmail isn't 64-bit clean, but that shouldn't bring down the whole system. > > > > in my opinion i386 is much better as for x86_64, a lot of people are > > still experimenting and you would just be asking for trouble if you make > > this into a production server > > All decent server software should be 64-bit clean for years now. This > shouldn't be an issue. > > But really, you're tempting fate to use any version Fedora on a production > server. If you need free, CentOS fills this part of the ecosystem. I will be moving to either CentOS or FreeBSD, because on my new server, whenever i had periods of high load for e-mail, my server would also concidentally go down, the hard drives would just start resetting until the system just went down, this happened to a similar machine with the same OS so i guess its the kernel or maybe a problem associated with the CD i got from my Distro! > -- > Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> > Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> >
