On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 10:31, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > It's not just Linux - Solaris sufferes from this hardware bug too. > Anyone with a busy server on an Ultra 1 platform is asking for trouble. > One of my clients has been plagued by it for many years until we recently > upgraded the hardware to an Ultra 80. Waste of an Ultra 80, but it keeps > them happy and stop the 30-second timeout you get with Solaris.
I have two Ultra 1, one running OpenBSD, the other one Solaris 9. They do not have to deal with a lot of bandwitdh (10BT on the local network, 512k DSL with the outside world) but sometimes I use them for big file transfers. They both have have one HME card, the gateway has a lance ethernet card too. With Linux I'm unable to complete a Debian woody network install without timeouts during packages downloading, and I can't make a 100 MB scp without having to reboot the U1. With Solaris I've never seen any timeout or driver freeze problem (I've only tested Solaris 9), nor did I with OpenBSD or NetBSD. I'm not using *BSD for pleasure (their init system inherently sux), but it's the only way I've found to use these computers with a free operating system. -- Irvin Probst There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't.
