Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 20:07:48 -0500 From: Rick Morel <rmorel@morelr.com> To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and NT Message-ID: <2.2.32.19970723010748.0090ba68@mail.morelr.com>
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I was an owner of aisp.net (we sold out July 1) and am still Sys Admin. I Admin morelr.com and kxkc.com. All in all, there are 7 NT Servers, 2 with 3.51 and the rest with 4.0. There used to be 8, but I recently installed FreeBSD and INN for news at aisp (Don't even ask about NT and Netmanage for news!!!!!). Oh, my own computer is running NT 4.0. I do prefer it over Win 95. FreeBSD, or any UNIX, to me is the pits for a workstation, but unbeatable for a server. Here at morelr I've switched everything to FreeBSD except FTP (that's going to be done tomorrow, thanks to the folks here) :-) and DNS (DNS will be next). The only thing I'm going to keep on NT is a www server strictly for VB CGI's. I'm pretty new to UNIX, and seem to be going against the trend -- NT to UNIX instead of the other way around. I really can't understand a lot of folks switching from it to NT _FOR_AN_INTERNET_SERVER_. I have nothing against MS except that more and more lately, the massive amount of *NEW* things have been getting buggier and buggier... Pardon, me... there's all kinds of "new features" (that's what I meant earlier with my "Twilight Zone" remark. All that said, my experience is that a heavily worked NT server doesn't seem to go more than a week without developing sloooooow down and other problems. At aisp, the dial-in server will start giving users odd errors after about 8 days, refusing to let them in. It gets worse and worse if left alone. A re-boot and all is nice. For about 8 days. The combo www and email server will start sloooowing down after about 6 days. Again, re-boot and all is well. The kxkc.com server (www, email and ftp) will go about 2 to 3 weeks or even longer with no problems -- it's not used nearly as much. Then the oddities start. Slow downs then okay, then slow, then okay, etc. Slow email or odd email errors, such as locked mailboxes for _some_ users or just timeouts, again for _some_ users; plus things like "locked" html files. So, I think everyone in the debate here is correct. It just depends. Now, for the "runs forever" group -- We have one, version 3.51. It runs a RealAudio server, very little used, and otherwise is used to check RAS, add users and email admin, via www, very heavily used. Sometimes the person that does all this has several User Managers and RAS Admins and even Netscapes all open and minimized. For days. I've _NEVER_ had to re-boot this machine. Oh, for the curious. The news server. It never really worked right. It required daily re-boots, then more often. I'd reinstall NT and Netmanage News. It'd run for maybe a month with only daily reboots, then back to its old tricks. When it finally got down to not running more than several minutes at a stretch, I finally insisted and put FreeBSD / INN. It's sooooooo niiiiicccceeee :-) :-) Rick
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