Re: RHEL4

[Mark Dadgar <mark justracing com>]

On Mar 1, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Aviram Carmi wrote:
> Got three questions related to upgrading/installing RHEL4:
>
> Would you upgrade an existing RHEL3 to RHEL4 now? or wait a while for 
> it to stabilize?

I did it now and it's been flawless.  It handles memory MUCH more 
gracefully than RHEL3 does, too.  No more pageing out active processes 
because cache has sucked up half the available RAM.

> If you had a brand new server, would you install RHEL3 and later 
> upgrade to RHEL4? or would you install RHEL4? now? wait a while?

RHEL4 would be my preferences, for the memory management reason listed 
about.

However, if I had to match versions with existing servers, etc., I'd 
wait.  This is why the bulk of my production machines are still on 
RHEL3.

> I can wait since I really only need two linux  boxes, and my old one, 
> a 933Mhz PIII which is running RH 7.3 is doing just fine, I got the 
> new server just because I got a great deal from Dell: dual capable 
> 3.0Mhz Xeon with the 64bit EM64T 800fsb, two 1GB DDR2, and two 160GB 
> Serial ATA drives, for only $800, free shipping, I just could not 
> resist...

I'd put RHEL4 on that for sure.

- Mark
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