Re: {bb} Redhat Fedora Core versus Redhat Enterprise

[Henrik Storner <henrik-bb@hswn.dk>]

In <7eeb9e7f04112104032fd454e2@mail.gmail.com> Ben Pitzer <bpitzer@gmail.com> writes:


>How about RH 7.3?  I've got some pretty critical servers that can't
>afford to have significant downtime, all running RH 7.3, and BB 1.9c. 
>We may eventually upgrade to 1.9e, but for now, 1.9c is what we have. 
>I have experienced the BB clients dying for no reason that I can
>discern on one set of boxes, but I'm not yet sure that it was the
>result of the type of problem being discussed here.

>Any feedback on this would be appreciated.  Thanks.

I haven't heard about problems with RH 7.3 - the issue appeared to be
with the newer kernel- and glibc-versions that were introduced in 
Red Hat 9.


Henrik



>On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:50:32 -0500, Boward, George F.
><gfboward@nmlc.med.navy.mil> wrote:
>> Really the only problem I had under RH9 was periodic hangs.  Others on the
>> list were more aware of the low-level issues, but my understanding was that
>> it was essentially a memory leak.  Memory usage on the system would creep up
>> over a period of 4 to 9 days until the system was unresponsive and all you
>> could do was cycle power.
>> 
>> Lots of solutions were suggested, but none of them worked for me.
>> 
>> Now that I think about it, I seem to recall that it had to do with redhat
>> customizations to the kernel.  One solution that worked for most people was
>> to download fresh unaltered kernel source from kernel.org and role your own
>> kernel.
>> 
>> Or upgrade to FC2.
>> 
>> Ted.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tom Georgoulias [mailto:tgeorgoulias@nandomedia.com]
>> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 11:27 AM
>> To: bb@bb4.com
>> Subject: Re: {bb} Redhat Fedora Core versus Redhat Enterprise
>> 
>> Hale, Barbara S - CNF wrote:
>> 
>> > I know they has been a lot of discussions about problems running BB on
>> > RedHat 9 in terms of things getting hung.  What about Fedore Core or
>> > Redhat Enterprise?  Are people having any problems with those?
>> 
>> I'm running bb v1.9e on many RHEL 2.1 and 3.0 systems and don't have any
>> problems with hangs.
>> 
>> What kind of problems occur on RH9, just in case something is happening that
>> I'm not aware of?
>> 
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