Re: Antwort: Re: IDS 9.x stability on Solaris vs Linux

Linux has kernel support for AIO. libaio has to be installed and several kernel patches have to be applied. http://www.kvack.org/~blah/aio/ Patches are available for 2.4.19 .....redhat 7.2/7.3/8.0 works. regards, Guido stepken Thomas.Mieslinger@gls-germany.com wrote: > I see no reason to use Linux. > > It might be quite stable, it does not yet support Kernel AIO and does not > have a good support for raw devices. > Anyway you have always hassle with the distributions. An example: > Hardware: 2way IBM x440 -> only supported Linux RedHat advanced server 2.1 > Software: IBM DB2 and IBM Domino 6. > > This will not work because Domino 6 does not run on pre 2.4.18 Kernels and > RedHat has a 2.4.9 Kernel. > > Or try one of the latest Suse Enterprise Servers. They will not work with > informix because glibc is to new and not downward compatible. > > I'd recommend: stay with Solaris! A SunFire V480 is cheaper than a x440 > and scales much better with more CPUs. And best of all no Problems with > Server Software. Informix, Notes, DB2, Oracle they all just run. No new > Kernel required, no hassle with glibc. > > Administring RedHat Advanced Server is a horror. You always have to use > those graphical tools which don't give all the power of the underlying > server software: example editing timezone and xntpd information. I ended > up changing the startscript of the ntp daemon because that freaky gaphical > Tool always destroyed my configuration. And at last: RedHat Advanced costs > a lot of money: 2.100$ per Server. If you buy a SunFire Box the OS is > included. > > regards Thomas >