On 3 Feb 2003, Irvin Probst wrote: > 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.
I was using solaris 7 on this particular box - what triggered it was doing lots of local disk activity. Gordon
