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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!peacenjoy.mikom.csir.co.za!news.uoregon.edu!csulb.edu!news.sgi.com!esiee.fr!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!mihalis.demon.co.uk From: cm@mihalis.demon.co.uk (Chris Morgan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: Benchmarking different Unix Operating Systems Date: 24 Sep 1996 23:04:18 +0100 Organization: athome Lines: 25 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <m2k9tjwowt.fsf@mihalis.demon.co.uk> References: <aak2.842008017@Isis.MsState.Edu> <50p41e$1ie@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <0mBksJ200YUg0AqQY0@andrew.cmu.edu> <R.521gkr$dk7@europa.frii.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mihalis.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: mihalis.demon.co.uk In-reply-to: jholder@frii.com's message of 21 Sep 1996 19:45:31 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27891 comp.os.linux.misc:131444 comp.unix.solaris:83639 In article <R.521gkr$dk7@europa.frii.com> jholder@frii.com (John Holder) writes: Funny. I've been running Solaris 2.4 on SparcCenter 2000e's, 4 processor, 1.5 GB RAM, 120GB disk on arrays, and haven't seen a single kernel panic in the four months I've been using them. Perhaps you just have sysadmins on the low side of the competance scale? Well to even out the statistics, out SPARCCentre2000 with 2Gig RAM 10 CPUs 100+ Gig RAID disk running 2.4 etc etc has crashed. Several times in fact. One time was a user trying to write a tape device driver and being confused which machine he was on. It went down big time just like that. And it was only supporting all our Unix software development :-( I would say the sysadmin was on the high side of the competance scale, but (full disclosure) he is a friend as well as a colleague. But it's an excellent machine and we love it. Don't put all your power on the desktop is my advice. Chris -- -- Chris Morgan |email cm@mihalis.demon.co.uk (home) http://www.mihalis.demon.co.uk/ | or chris.morgan@baesema.co.uk (work)