Re: The GPL 3.0 fiasco will make OpenSolaris #1

From: Jim Richardson (warlock_at_eskimo.com)
Date: 04/16/05 

Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 14:22:48 -0700

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On 16 Apr 2005 19:42:45 GMT,
 Paul Floyd <root@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 13:32:03 -0400, rapskat <rapskat@gmail.com> wrote:
>> begin Error log for Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:36:55 +0000 - Paul Floyd caused a
>> page fault at address <slrnd60d0l.uu.root@bisanne.netpratique.fr>, details
>> as follows .vbs
>>
>>> On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 04:36:40 +0200, Robert M. Stockmann
>>> <stock@stokkie.net> wrote:
>>>> Don't mixup your platforms.... for UltraSparc this might very well be
>>>> the case, but for x86 or even x86_64 i have my doubts about that. Now
>>>> guess what? Sun Microsystems will killoff her inhouse developed Ultra
>>>> Sparc CPU very soon.
>>>
>>> I've been running Solaris on my PC since Solaris 7. In that time, I've
>>> had two crashes (both due to a bug i the UDFS driver that didn't like a
>>> directcd formatted disk). On the Linux side, most of my experience is at
>>> work, where we have a dozen or so machines. Hardly a day goes by without
>>> one of them requiring a reboot. To date I'm singularly unimpressed with
>>> Linux in terms of reliability.
>>
>> I can't say whether or not you are relaying accuracies, but I can say that
>> this is definitely not the norm for a properly configured Linux box on
>> good hardware.
>>
>> If you are truly having issues that necessitate a reboot on regular basis,
>> then something is really wrong either with your hardware config, software
>> config, or admin skills.
>
> Funny, that. Our SunFire machine had an uptime of 200 odd days the last
> time that I looked despite getting an absolute thrashing (a 4CPU
> machine, with an average load throughout the day of about 12).
>
> Our Linux boxes, when faced with the same sort of thrashing just keep
> falling over. And somehow there's a configuration problem on the Linux
> machines. Can't possibly be a problem with the OS can it?
>
> A bientot
> Paul

I have a LAMP server that sat at a constant load of >10 for the better
part of 10 months (eventually got a more powerful box to replace it) not
one reboot, and it's performance was little affected by the load.
Sometimes ssh logins took a few seconds to initiate, that was about it.
This was on a dual CPU (non-hyperthreaded) IIRC, 400MHZ box, with a gig
of ram, the new one, is a lot faster, with more ram, and a faster HD
setup.

I second Rapskat's point, if you are having to reboot daily on those
boxes, look deeper, something is wrong somewhere, that's not the norm.
No matter what the load.

I did have a small server that had stability problems, finally tracked
it down to a faulty mem slot, pulled the ram out, and it ran better :)
Wound up replacing the mobo eventually. After it got to the point that a
light smack on the side of the box, would reboot the system. :)

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