My boss want to kill debian, please help !
Hello Everybody,
This is the situation:
Here are several servers, most redhat, some freebsd 5.x, and some
debian. Debian is used on 2 most powerfull servers, and put under
network traffic stress. From time to time, these debian systems has a
kernel panic, packet loss. Last time one of the machines completly
died, it stopped to work (it didn't say "kernel panic"). The machine
is under huge stress because it is connected to a big swtching network
via e1000 netcard (in 100 full duplex mode). It has zebra + bgpd and
also arpwatch. I use QoS on that machine, htb with about 1500 classes
and 1500 filters (fw). The kernel is 2.4.28 stable. Another machine,
also debian, got into similar problems under high load (kernel panic,
or just system freeze). Another machine, under even more load, is a
redhat 9.0, some 2.4.26 kernel, bgp, 4000 htb classes and no problem
at all. My boss experimented problems with debian several times (he is
an old unix/linux user), and now he believe that only redhat is good.
Does somebody knows what the problem may be with the machine with
2.4.28 and that crashed recently without a word? I need to elucidate
this.
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