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From: jholder@frii.com (John Holder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Benchmarking different Unix Operating Systems
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Date: 21 Sep 1996 19:45:31 GMT
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G Sumner Hayes (sumner+@CMU.EDU) wrote:
: Well, I'd have to say that in any case you absolutely, positively _do_
: _not_ want to go with Solaris. It is _much_ less stable than HPUX,
: SunOS, Ultrix, NetBSD, and Linux. In particular, CMU has a cluster of
: about 30 Ultras running Solaris and 15 Sparc 5's running Solaris; I
: see, on average, one kernel panic every 6-8 hours. That's one kernel
: panic every 315 machine hours or so, under very light load (single
: user). I've seen only 1 kernel panic on the HP's (not sure which
<edit>
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?
--
John Holder (jholder@frii.com) http://www.frii.com/~jholder/
UNIX Specialist, Paranet Inc., Denver, Colorado, USA, Earth
Death is just God's way of dropping carrier detect...