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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!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!deepthot!brtph500.bnr.ca!nrtphba6.bnr.ca!bcarh189.bnr.ca!nrchh45.rich.nt.com!ferret.ocunix.on.ca!resurrect 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 Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.solaris Date: 21 Sep 1996 19:45:31 GMT Organization: Front Range Internet, Inc. Lines: 19 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <R.521gkr$dk7@europa.frii.com> References: <aak2.842008017@Isis.MsState.Edu> <50p41e$1ie@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <0mBksJ200YUg0AqQY0@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deimos.frii.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27793 comp.os.linux.misc:131084 comp.unix.solaris:83474 Reposting article removed by rogue canceller. 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...