From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
To: Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Alex Turner <armtuk@gmail.com>
Cc: Alvaro Nunes Melo <al_nunes@atua.com.br>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Hardware upgraded but performance still ain't good
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:14:08 -0400
Message-ID: <b42b73150608180614q76e00ee2k755ab44b3eae9a71@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On 8/18/06, Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net> wrote:
> > > First off - very few third party tools support debian. Debian is
> > a
> > > sure fire way to have an unsupported system. Use RedHat or SuSe
> > > (flame me all you want, it doesn't make it less true).
> >
> > *cough* BS *cough*
> >
> > Linux is Linux. It doesn't matter what trademark you put on top of
> > it.
> > As long as they are running a current version of Linux (e.g; kernel
> > 2.6) they should be fine.
>
> Unfortunatly, that' not my experience either.
> Both RedHat and SuSE heavily modify the kernel. So anything that needs
> anything near kernel space (two examples: the HP management/monitoring
> tools and the EMC/Legato Networker backup software) simply does not work
> on Linux (linux being the kernel from kernel.org). They only work on
> RedHat/SuSE. To the point of not compiling/starting/working, not just
> the support part.
>
> (One could argue that they shouldn't claim linux support then, but
> specifically RH/SuSE, but I don't expect them to do that..)
>
> BTW, it used to work much better with 2.4, but since there is no real
> "stable series" kernel in 2.6, it's just a lost cause there it seems.
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