Re: Installing Debian on HP9000 vs. HP-UX
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> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 02:30:18PM -0500, Alfonso Baqueiro wrote:
> > Is Debian HP port good enough to be used in production
> > enviroment on a HP9000?
>
> YMMV.
>
> www.parisc-linux.org (a500) goes down every couple of weeks
> since we upgraded to a 2.6 kernel. But it could be due to the very
> buggy bcm5700 NICs that are installed.
> I've asked those be replaced with HP A6825A (bcm5701) or bcm5703
NICs.
> Other folks have very good experience with 32-bit kernels on
workstations
> (e.g B180,c3000) and 64-bit kernels on servers like a500.
Just for the records:
http://www.pateam.org/realisations.html
If you look at netcraft
(http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?host=www.pateam.org) you'll see
over 380 days max uptime for that webserver (a B180) btw.
I've been stressing both a A500 and a L1000 under heavy load (building
Ubuntu Linux), and 2.6.8.1 proved rock solid. Several hundreds days
uptime on these machines aren't unheard of :)
It's nonetheless true that late kernels, though including new features
and perf improvements, might be a tad more buggy. Feel free to help
fixing the bugs ;)
Here's my personnal MTA (a 712 running postfix/mailman!):
[varenet@FLCL ~]$ uname -a; uptime
Linux FLCL 2.6.0-pa1 #1 Mon Dec 22 14:00:43 CET 2003 parisc GNU/Linux
09:48:24 up 479 days, 22:56, 1 user, load average: 0.98, 0.57, 0.32
As you can see, the kernel has been built, the box booted and never
taken down since then ;)
Of course that doesn't prove anything, but that can give hints. In any
case, "Your Mileage May Vary", as Grant said :)
> > Does anyone know of a technical comparision?
>
> Overall, HPUX kernel supports *less* HW (e.g. PCI-PCMCIA adapter
> or wireless cards) and has fewer free SW packages than debian.
> gfx and audio are indeed badly supported by the parisc-linux port
> as already pointed out. But I expect the things that are available
> for HPUX to be solid.
Audio *is* getting better! Harmony works, AD1889 is getting there too
(thanks Kyle! ;)
Of course, video (FX cards) is another story, but hopefully that
doesn't matter much for a *server*.
HTH
--
Thibaut VARENE
http://www.pateam.org/
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