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From: Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
Date: 26 Jul 1995 00:43:38 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp
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References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <3uhstv$pf@empire.texas.net> <3ul4g2$i6n@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <3uohdo$5s2@disunms.epfl.ch> <3uvoda$9vi@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
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j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:
>Werner Almesberger <almesber@lrc.epfl.ch> wrote:
>>In article <3ul4g2$i6n@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>,
>>J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>>> Btw., the shortest time between crashes on an SGI has been < 1 hour.
>>
..snip
>But the most fragile thing has been their ISDN product. It has been
>released already with a big delay, and it's something FreeBSD wouldn't
>give out as ALPHA state software. In FreeBSD, it might have been put
>under /xperimnt, but nowhere else. It's instable, not reliably
>working at all, and it rapidly eats up all available kernel memory.
>Having 48 MB out of 64 consumed by the kernel after one week of uptime
>(for a machine that's doing nothing else than acting as an ISDN
>router) is the usual way to go...
>--
>cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
> http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
>
>Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
If you are interested in a really good flame war repost this to
comp.dcom.isdn and wait for the response from Vernon!!
By the way DECs ISDN works fine!!
sorry couldn't resist as I wrote most of the code :-)
Jon
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