On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Mike M. Miskulin wrote:
> hey now,
>
> I've only been on this list for about 2 weeks, but
> I've been running a SMP machine for 2 years - a self
> built Supermicro machine w/ 2PPro 180's overclocked to 200.
>
>
> No problems other than one disk vaporization last spring.
> Currently running 2.1.125.
>
> Observation: it seems to me there are a lot more problems
> with PII systems than PPro systems. At some point I will
> likely build a new system, but I'm a bit put off - am I
> justified in this observation?
Not to my observation. There are always a few new problems that surface
when a new high water clock speed is reached and various latencies
shrink to where they expose new bugs. I think that 440LX PII's are very
safe by now, though, and that really up to 400 MHz 440BX dual PII's are
likely to be ok. Always exceptions, of course, but remember, Linus uses
high end systems himself to do kernel development on so things rarely
stay broken for long. Right now I'm running more dual PII's than I have
dual PPros, and rate them a tossup in relative stability. That is, they
are both so stable that I have a hard time accumulating adequate
statistics on which one might be more stable over only four or five
months;-) Ask me again in a year.
rgb
Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/
Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
Durham, N.C. 27708-0305
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