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From: gratz@ite.inf.tu-dresden.de (Achim Gratz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Benchmarking different Unix Operating Systems
Followup-To: comp.unix.solaris
Date: 13 Sep 1996 10:44:52 +0200
Organization: Institute of Computer Engineering, CS department, TU Dresden, Germany
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>>>>> "GSH" == G Sumner Hayes <sumner+@CMU.EDU> writes:
[horror stories about Solaris kernel panics]
Has it ever occured to you that this might be a configuration or
hardware problem? Things to look at are third party vendor memory
upgrades, SCSI bus termination (especially if you got external boxes,
you have active terminators on them, do you?), climate control and
power supply (if your users switch the monitors on and off, you have
them hooked on a seperate line, do you?).
The last kernel panic I've personally seen that was repeatable and
wasn't introduced by hardware faults or idiots switching off external
harddisks was on SunOS 4.1.1 on a 4/330.
--
Achim Gratz.
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