Re: Any serious production servers yet?

[Erik Wikström <erik-wikstrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-06-01 18:46, Danial Thom wrote:
> --- Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Danial Thom wrote:
> > > Surely it makes sense to begin developing O/S
> > > applications (which is what I need to do),
> > > however I need an OS that is production
> > ready,
> > > even if its not as good as its going to be,
> > > because I can't reasonably test the
> > performance
> > > of an application on an OS that can't handle
> > > production loads.
> >
> > *sigh*
> >
> > Is this going to be another of those
> > half-yearly "Danial vs. the rest" 
> > threads?
> >
> > How about this: You restrain yourself from
> > stealing people's time with 
> > your annoying discussion for discussion's sake
> > and I promise to get back 
> > to you in personal email as soon as I think
> > that DragonFly has reached 
> > the point where it could be interesting to you?
> >
> > Sascha
>
> I don't see that its me "vs" anything. I have to
> chose an MP OS for a big project and I just asked
> if the project is production-ready yet, and
> instead of getting an answer, I get a lot of
> pointers to personal web pages and routers that
> aren't even pushing a T1. A simple answer like
> "No, DFLY isn't ready for prime time yet, and we
> don't expect it will be until Sept '07". would
> have avoided wasting your time.

Well, the definition of production-ready differs with the needs of the 
production server. You've got lots of examples of DF being used in 
production but none of them happens to be the kind of environment that 
you'll use. Regardless of the type of services one would use an OS for 
there's only one reliable way to determine if a particular solution is 
the one you want or not, and that is testing it yourself under the same 
conditions that it will encounter in production.

In short the only way to know is to test it yourself. To ask if someone 
has done X using Y and Z under conditions A, B and C is often pointless 
since no setup or requirement is identical to another unless it's very 
simple.

Erik Wikström
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