On 9 Jan 2002 at 21:34, newlxuser wrote: > May I dare to dis-agree with this, Bish ?
Well you need not because both of you are right in their own places.. > If these 486's are being used extensively from last 11 months > smoothly for critical share portfolio 'real time' data feeding > job, what can be wrong with a doc's patient's summary data ? OK I tell you the reason. It's hardware aging. Your cables(i.e. HDD/IDE etc) go old. They start dropping transfer speed and start popping errors. It's nothing to do with 486. It's a fine and capable architecture. I have a dormant 486 box in my home. I am sure the moment I put a monitor for it, it will be as alive. But for mission critical jobs especially database, please don't do it. If you put it as a network router/firewall and it goes down you don't lose much of data though connectivity remains important. But if you put database and it fails due to hardware error you stand to lose something despite of almighty backups in place. I would recommend internal cable replacements once in a year if machine is serving 24x7. Believe me it makes difference.. Again it's not the CPU it's the hardware architecture. After all one has to decide how much significant your data is. I would certainly rate it higher than chances of hardware failure Shridhar _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
