RE: subject: iSeries Legends

Joe,

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Joe Pluta wrote:
>
> Scott, to be fair, a web/mail server is not exactly a tough job.
>

So, a web server can't create any significant load on a system?   It's
an easy job?   So, if I take my 5250 apps, and replace their screens with
a web interface, they'll run faster and produce less load on my iSeries?

Really, Joe... if you REALLY wanted to be fair, you would say "I don't
know what kind of load is on Scott's server" because YOU DONT.

>
> "Some application programs" ain't half the workload a typical OS/400 box
> does every day of its working life.
>

Again, this is going to be different with every server.   How could you
possibly know whether my web server has a higher load than my iSeries?

I'll tell you one thing... my iSeries web server doesn't even come close
to serving up web pages at the speed on my FreeBSD server.   Not even
close.   And LDAP is horrible on the iSeries... The BSD servers all have
subsecond response times, where 2-3 seconds is normal for the iSeries.

If those apps aren't a tough job, why does my 2001 iSeries with 8 times as
much RAM perform so much more poorly than my 1996 PC running FreeBSD?

> And this is not a "Unix is bad" tirade. My Linux machine is actually my
> most reliable box on a pure numbers basis, but that's only because the
> 270 has thrown two disk drives in the past year. At the same time, I
> guarantee my 270 gets a much harder workout than my Unix box.

Mine is also a 270, and has also thrown a disk drive.  But, apparently
failed disk drives don't count for stability/instability?!

>
> Oh I take that back.  Until I shut it down the other day, my NT box was the
> most reliable.  Zero downtime in three years.  However, it did nothing.  It
> was the DNS and network server, but the Linux box took over the former job
> and the latter is no longer required.
>

Well, in that case, my toaster is the most reliable machine.   It's been
serving up toast for 12 years without any downtime.

> But I don't ever hear of production Unix or especially NT boxes (ones
> running applications like Oracle or SAP) with that sort of uptime.

You have now.