Re: Most stable Linux distribution for Django - Python development

I've used Debian (lenny+squeeze) for many years now in Python/Django development, and it's served me well.

But, you can easily turn a system into a nervous wreck if you don't configure it properly, or use "bleeding edge" without fully knowing whats happening.

All distros of Linux are a learning curve, but here are some of the issues I came up against in Debian (some of which would apply to other flavors too)

• Usage of DRBD + OCFS2 causes kernel deadlocks
  
  
• The most common reason for a server dying, is due to it swapping out (personally, I disable swap, and rely on the kernels OOM-killer) - avoid this by ensuring you account for every single byte of memory being used.
  
  
• Syncing multiple software RAIDs at the same time causes huge un-proportional RAID IO slowdown.
  
  
• Most reliable stack so far is nginx+uwsgi+php fpm for fcgi.
  
  
• use LXC containers to enforce memory limits (don't rely on limits.conf for this, seriously).
  
  
• be careful when enabling chroot + pax restrictions in grsec, it can cause problems.

Tons more, but I think these are the most common I came across.

Cal

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Anoop Thomas Mathew <atmb4u@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

Firstly, I am not here for a distro war.

I was using ubuntu 9.10, and then switched to fedora 14 and then to fedora 15. 

IMHO, It seems that they all were quite unstable. (Many times it hung up on my Dell and HP machines - may be driver issues, still I don't want that too.)

I would really like some recommendation for a linux distro which is much stable, but still can support all relevant packages.

Top recommendations I found around was Debian and OpenSuse.

Please revert with your suggestions.

Thanks,
Anoop Thomas Mathew

atm
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