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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!panix!news.panix.com!not-for-mail From: bryan@panix.com (Bryan Althaus) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: Benchmarking different Unix Operating Systems Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.solaris Date: 25 Sep 1996 23:17:17 -0400 Organization: Somewhere in Manhattan Lines: 34 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <52csjt$lui@panix.com> References: <aak2.842008017@Isis.MsState.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:28007 comp.os.linux.misc:131697 comp.unix.solaris:83793 Chris Morgan (cm@mihalis.demon.co.uk) wrote: : In article <R.521gkr$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. Upgrade to Solaris 2.5.1, the latest release. 2.4 is really the first stable release. : 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 :-( : A device driver bug can crash any OS so I wouldn't blame that on Solaris. : 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)