Recommendation on Linux environment

RT Users
1

We are working on getting RT running on Windows. We are almost entirely a
Windows shop with a few Macs scattered around. We do have some Linux users
here (who use it on their own).

It is my belief that we will be better off with setting up a Linux box to
run RT (memory management, stability, etc). Does anyone have recommendation
on which flavor of Linux we should run? The only thing this box will be
doing is running RT.

Thanks!
Brett

2

It is my belief that we will be better off with setting up a Linux box to
run RT (memory management, stability, etc). Does anyone have recommendation
on which flavor of Linux we should run? The only thing this box will be
doing is running RT.

My experience is that performance on Windows 2000 is terrible. We ran the
windows version of RT on a Dual-450 with 256MB of RAM and the mysqld alone
was using 700MB of memory (and we just started using it a week ago).
Needless to say, I’ve just deployed a Linux version today for our office and
we are up and running on it. mysqld on Linux is utilizing just 2.5% of 256MB
of memory right now.

I would strongly encourage you to partner with one of your more experienced
Linux users and run RT on Linux.

3

From working with several different Linux distributions, the one that I
would recommend is Gentoo. Resolving dependencies with this
source-based distro was frighteningly easy. If someone, who had the
know-how, would create an ebuild specifically for RT, installation of RT
would nearly be as simple as a single command: ‘emerge rt’

However all ebuilds that I’ve found for RT were from summer of '03. If
anyone knows of one from more recently, posting that here would be
immensely helpful. Or, I’d be willing to work with someone with more
experience to help create one.

Ryan-----Original Message-----
From: rt-users-bounces@lists.bestpractical.com
[mailto:rt-users-bounces@lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of Brett
Barnhart
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 09:05
To: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
Subject: [rt-users] Recommendation on Linux environment

We are working on getting RT running on Windows. We are almost entirely
a
Windows shop with a few Macs scattered around. We do have some Linux
users
here (who use it on their own).

It is my belief that we will be better off with setting up a Linux box
to
run RT (memory management, stability, etc). Does anyone have
recommendation
on which flavor of Linux we should run? The only thing this box will be
doing is running RT.

Thanks!
Brett

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