Re: [TUHS] Research UNIX on the AT&T 3B2?

On 8/28/2018 2:42 AM, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote: If you haven't tried Solaris 11, at least 11.2 or later, check it out. A lot of GNU stuff is available, and you can "pkg install" apache, tomcat, PHP, MYSQL, and a slew of other things that are actually being kept up to date. The recent PHP 7.1.17 exploit fix was put out in the regular Solaris 11 SRU a few weeks after it was publicly released. And that was supposedly after the "mass layoff" of Solaris engineers. I've also noticed quite a few bug fixes for Solaris internals and device drivers since then so Oracle is still maintaining Solaris. I think their most recent support time line puts Solaris support out to 2030 or so. I've installed and maintain a few Solaris 11.1 (since upgraded to 11.3) clusters for Oracle databases on Intel (Dell) blades with fiber channel, and with ZFS they've been rock-solid. Side note, and I probably already said this a long time ago here, but back in the early days of Linux kernel 2.6, I complained on one of the mailing lists about the removal of a way to control the size of the disk cache, along with the tendency for the kernel to page out applications in favor of more disk cache. The snobby answer I got back from a developer was that (paraphrased) "We know better than you about memory allocation" or some such garbage. I've always turned my nose up at Linux since then. I figure if that level of arrogance had infested it to that degree, and an open-source project at that, I wanted no part of it. Since then, of course, they have made some changes that make it less likely to do that, but I have a recent Oracle Linux (Redhat) system here running Oracle eBusiness that is currently 2GB into swap, and has 10G of disk cache. Swappiness is set to 0, and other tunables were altered that should have stopped that. That's just plain dumb.