On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:23:23AM -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:11:11AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > In any case, I guess the fact that auric has been running Sparc Linux > > > for some time now (more than a year?) is a testament to how solid Linux > > > on Sparc is. The workload on auric must be pretty high at all times, > > > from all points of view (network, CPU, disk I/O, etc.) > > > > It's definitely a workhorse, and it tasks most of the primary kernel > > subsystems. > [...] > > That may not sound like much, but it can easily kill most machines, and > > will generally pop up some strange bugs. > > Yes, this is pretty impressive. Does DaveM know about all the stress > we're putting on this box? I guess he must be happy seeing how well > everything is holding up here :-)
DaveM gets an email everytime this box crashes, although I try not to bother him too much :) He's been the key person getting the kernel stable enough for this machine (stock 2.2.x kernels could not handle the load on this box). -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
