On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 10:05 -0400, Mark Mielke wrote: > On 10/01/2009 03:44 PM, Denis Lussier wrote: > > I'm a BSD license fan, but, I don't know much about *BSD otherwise > > (except that many advocates say it runs PG very nicely). > > On the Linux side, unless your a dweeb, go with a newer, popular & > > well supported release for Production. IMHO, that's RHEL 5.x or > > CentOS 5.x. Of course the latest SLES & UBuntu schtuff are also fine. > > In other words, unless you've got a really good reason for it, stay > > away from Fedora & OpenSuse for production usage. > Lots of conflicting opinions and results in this thread. Also, a lot of > hand waving and speculation. :-) > RHEL and CentOS are particular bad *right now*. See here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RHEL > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS Talk about "hand waving and speculation" - you are citing Wikipedia as a source?! > For RHEL, look down to "Release History" and RHEL 5.3 based on > Linux-2.6.18, released March, 2007. On the CentOS page you'll see it is > dated April, 2007. CentOS is identical to RHEL on purpose, but always 1 > to 6 months after the RHEL, since they take the RHEL source, re-build > it, and then re-test it. Maybe that is the kernel version - but it isn't a vanilla kernel. Comparing kernel versions between distros is a dodgy business as they all have their own patch sets and backports of patches. > Linux is up to Linux-2.6.31.1 right now: > http://www.kernel.org/ And I very much doubt kernel version is a significant factor in performance unless you hit one of the lemon versions. > Personally, I use Fedora, and my servers have been quite stable. One of > our main web servers running Fedora: > [mark@bambi]~% uptime > 09:45:41 up 236 days, 10:07, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.08 gourd-amber:~ # uptime 8:28am up 867 days 12:30, 1 user, load average: 0.24, 0.18, 0.10 -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
