On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Christopher Dukes <pak...@pr.neotoma.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 14:30 -0400, Joe McDonagh wrote: >> "If your Sun fails" <-- that's a big IF. It's approaching a possibility >> of 0 in my experience. >> >> If performance isn't an issue and stability is your chief goal, none of >> this hardware is as stable as a Sun. > > Not quite my experience. > In 2001 I worked at a place with a lot of used Sun hardware courtesy of > Fujitsu layoffs (Sparc 20s, Ultra 5s). > Entirely too many fried ethernet ports on the sparc 20s. > And it took too many iterations to find a sparc 20 that wouldn't crash > and burn while building OpenBSD from source. > A fidgety developer kicking an ultra 5 from a | orientation to a _ > orientation would reliably destroy the power supply and harddrives. > On the bright side, I could repair the ultra 5s with power supply and > drives scavenged from eMachines with ALI motherboards with the wonderful > DMA that shoved garbage into memory for every OS we tried on them.
I had a U10 with a Gig of ram that would crash during building. It turned out to be a bad RAM module. I'm with Henning though. I've yet to see a dead Netra, stacks and stacks of e220r/e420r's that haven't ever had any issues. I used to have a bunch of the e220r series that had like 4 years (maybe more) worth of dmesg's in the output because they were never powered off, only restarted for upgrades. -B
