[TriLUG] comments on Mandrake and Red Hat stability

[Sinner from the Prairy]

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On Tuesday 12 November 2002 11:4411am, Maria C Winslow wrote:
> Does anyone have any comments on the relative stability of Mandrake 9
> and Red Hat 8?

We have set up both at work. Both are smoking fast Linux distros. I have 
MDK 9.0 at home,r eady to be moved from testing to production 
partitions. MDK 9.0 is noticeably faster than MDK 8.2.  

gcc-3.2 rulez :) And KDE 3 is faster. Specialy at home, using my 
K6-II-400. KDE 3 compares very favorable with KDE-2.2.2 compiled with 
objprelink.

RedHat and BlueCurve are just great. I like RedHat going the path of 
Debian and Mandrake in their menu system. It makes waaay more sense 
than the old-fashioned thing. Good for Red Hat.

Again gcc-3.2 RuleZ a lot :)  And Gnome-2.0 is as fast as it can get in 
Nascar-country. And this is very fast. What was the codename for RedHat 
8.0? Nascar? *grin*

We are using both as LTS (Linux Terminal Servers). They work both great, 
under quite a load of 
KDE+Evolution+Mozilla+OpenOffice+NFS+xinetd+XDM/GDM/KDM ...

No problems of stability, really.

The glitches, so far:

Mandrake: ACPMI (the "new" power management and power-off) just does no 
work. Needs to be disabled. Seen at work and at Craig's PC. Hi Craig :)

Red Hat: UTF-8 is a major PITA. Try some grepping. And/or installing 
rpms with a non en_US locale. See:

On virtualy identical machines (RH 8.0 has double RAM than MDK 9.0):

RedHat:
- ---------------------- Start Test ---------
$ ls -lh test.log
- -rw-rw-r--    1 sinner  sinner       21M Nov 14 07:40 test.log

$ time grep -c Nov test.log
15514

real    0m32.236s
user    0m32.166s
sys     0m0.051s

# hdparm -tT /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.49 seconds =263.21 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.38 seconds = 46.28 MB/sec

# hdparm /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 multcount    = 16 (on)
 IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    =  8 (on)
 geometry     = 9729/255/63, sectors = 156301488, start = 0
- ---------------------- End Test ---------

On Mandrake:
- ---------------------- Start Test ---------
$ ll -hl test2.log
- -rw-r--r--    1 sinner   sinner        34M Nov 14 08:16 test2.log

$ time grep -c Nov test2.log
41660
0.19 user 
0.10 system 
0:00.50 elapsed 
57%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs 
(157major+35minor)pagefaults 0swaps

# hdparm -tT /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.51 seconds =250.98 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.42 seconds = 45.07 MB/sec
- ---------------------- End Test ---------


I've learned that this is a reported bug that has to do with UTF-8


Regards,
Sinner
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http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/     Linux User # 89976
Testing Mandrake 9.0 -    Linux Machine # 38068
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