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If rails causes a kernel panic then this is really a bug in the kernel. No user land app should ever do this. Why not try to scale on *BSD or Windows all of who
by dazzawazza 14y ago
If rails causes a kernel panic then this is really a bug in the kernel. No user land app should ever do this. Why not try to scale on *BSD or Windows all of whom have different kernel and scale just fine?
$100,000 and no one said "hey what about running it on <insert other os>"?
- CWIZO 14y agoI'm as bewildered as all of you. But let's give them the benefit of doubt, he probably just forgot to mention that they tried other OSes. I mean, who wouldn't?
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- astrodust 14y agoDid they try other kernel versions? Other Ruby VMs? This is a terribly weak excuse. It's like quitting your job because you can't get the printer driver working.
- ahoyhere 14y agoYes, "Amy" is a historically male name.
- CWIZO 14y agoSorry, I guess I wasn't paying attention to the name and defaulted to male when I wrote the comment. I'll try not to do that again.
- tzaman 14y agoOr just changing kernel version? It's quite fascinating really, especially in 2012 to give up because of software failure.
- ahoyhere 14y agoIf you read the email I wrote, it's clear that we're not "giving up because of software failure." Look at it again and you'll see it's a different reason altogether.
- meaty 14y agoThis is normal for Ubuntu kernels from experience. They are shitty. Various server releases have given us hell. They're fudging them somehow. We moved to debian after numerous problems and have had no issues since.
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- tedivm 14y agoYeah, when I see people running Ubuntu for their production servers I always assume it's developers with minimal system admin experience who just want to use the same distro for their server as their desktop. I've got nothing against Ubuntu, and have even used it to convert a few windows users over, but if you're going to run a production server then install Debian on it.
- meaty 14y agoWell it was our operations guys who refused anything but Ubuntu because "they had installed it at home". We now no longer have operations guys and the development team own the infrastructure :)
- davidw 14y agoI have been using Debian since 1996, and became a package maintainer in 1997, a position I held for nearly a decade until I began to not have enough time for it. While continuing to think that Debian is a first-rate effort, I got tired of certain aspects of it, and moved to Ubuntu, lock stock and barrel. I actually like to have my desktop system marching in sync with my server, so that the packages are pretty much exactly the same. And you know what? Ubuntu works pretty well on the server, and comes out with nice regular releases, allowing me to decide, and gauge, time-wise, when to upgrade. Certainly, like everything else, it has its defects, but by and large, I've had good luck with it, as both a desktop and server distribution.
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- taylodl 14y agoExactly. There's loads of Unixen they could have tried. There's also tons of people running Rails. Though I'm not a big fan of Rails I can't deny there's a lot of it running successfully. There's got to be more to this story!
- taylodl 14y agoExactly. There's loads of Unixen they could have tried. There's also tons of people running Rails. Though I'm not a big fan of Rails I can't deny there's a lot of it running successfully. There's got to be more to this story!
- taylodl 14y agoExactly. There's loads of Unixen they could have tried. There's also tons of people running Rails. Though I'm not a big fan of Rails I can't deny there's a lot of it running successfully. There's got to be more to this story!
- onetwothreefour 14y agoI'm pretty sure a lot of people are running Linux and the world's largest websites... Just saying.