Re: Ultra60 for production environment?
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 01:06:46PM +0100, Arthur van Dorp wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've got an Ultra60 with two 18GB SCSI-drives running under Solaris 7 as
> a mail, file and webserver with webmail and the usual things. It's
> getting pretty unmaintainable because it's been set up by my predecessor
> and most programms were compiled "by hand" with a lot of dependencies to
> GNU tools and the like. Updating one programm for security reasons
> always means resolving old and probably new dependencies (i.e. gettext
> for IMP, openssl for apache and sIMAP etc.).
>
> I plan to use Debian with kernel 2.4 (I'm used to iptables), RAID 1
> (Soft- or Hardware?) and the usual software tools (apache, spamassassin,
> openLDAP...). I'd like to hear your unbiased (cough) opinions on
> stability of Debian for sun4u, the possible choice of the correct
> software tools etc.
Debian's primary archive server (and I mean the one where all 900+
developers upload their packages to, and which in turn processes them
into the archive and then push mirrors that out to all the tier one
mirror sites) is an Ultra60, dual 450mhz cpu's, 1.5gigs of ram.
It manages a 9gig internal disk for the system and a 238gig Sun Netra st
A1000 external array for the archive. Check http://auric.debian.org/mrtg/
for some useful info. The machine is running 2.4.19-rc1 and it generally
has a 2-10 load average, peaking at 20 at times.
The services it runs include apache (provides 0-minute packages to the
buildd's, so they don't have to wait for mirrors), rsync for push
mirrors, postgresql to manage the archive layout (6000 packages * 12+
architectures, not to mention stable, testing and unstable dists). I
believe it also manages the database for all of our buildd's (the
software and machines that autobuild packages for each architecture).
This machine has been in production for almost two years now (maybe
more?).
I hope that's a positive testimony.
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