Any serious production servers yet?

[Erik Wikström]

On 2006-06-01 18:46, Danial Thom wrote:
--- Sascha Wildner <saw at xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Danial Thom wrote:
> Surely it makes sense to begin developing O/S
> applications (which is what I need to do),
> however I need an OS that is production
ready,
> even if its not as good as its going to be,
> because I can't reasonably test the
performance
> of an application on an OS that can't handle
> production loads.
*sigh*

Is this going to be another of those
half-yearly "Danial vs. the rest" 
threads?

How about this: You restrain yourself from
stealing people's time with 
your annoying discussion for discussion's sake
and I promise to get back 
to you in personal email as soon as I think
that DragonFly has reached 
the point where it could be interesting to you?

Sascha
I don't see that its me "vs" anything. I have to
chose an MP OS for a big project and I just asked
if the project is production-ready yet, and
instead of getting an answer, I get a lot of
pointers to personal web pages and routers that
aren't even pushing a T1. A simple answer like
"No, DFLY isn't ready for prime time yet, and we
don't expect it will be until Sept '07". would
have avoided wasting your time.
Well, the definition of production-ready differs with the needs of the 
production server. You've got lots of examples of DF being used in 
production but none of them happens to be the kind of environment that 
you'll use. Regardless of the type of services one would use an OS for 
there's only one reliable way to determine if a particular solution is 
the one you want or not, and that is testing it yourself under the same 
conditions that it will encounter in production.

In short the only way to know is to test it yourself. To ask if someone 
has done X using Y and Z under conditions A, B and C is often pointless 
since no setup or requirement is identical to another unless it's very 
simple.

Erik Wikström
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