That's really bizarre man. I have noticed a definite pattern over the last year of Hewlett Packard hardware having severe problems with Solaris and I'm starting to wonder now if it is something that's deliberately being caused by HP's engineers because the Hewlett-Packard brand of System V UNIX (HP-UX) is a direct competitor againsts Solaris (SUN Microsystems' System V UNIX) and AIX (IBM's System V UNIX) in the enterprise.
Here's interesting example for you: I work in a data center and I run into this one guy a lot who is a professional UNIX admin and he was running Solaris 10 on HP server hardware and he also had a yearly support contract with Sun because this was a production machine used for high volume enterprise computing. Anyway, Solaris 10 kept crashing on this server every time the server was put under a heavy load. So he contacted Sun's tech support and within no time at all he was in touch with some guys on the Solaris kernel developer team and they went through the crash dumps and dtraced around on the server and within less than 24 hours they had figured out that the problem was caused by a bad driver written for Solaris BY Hewlett Packard's engineers that was causing a buffer overflow that was crashing the OS. After that he had to wait for a month for the Hewlett Packard engineers to come out with a new driver and the only difference between the new device driver and the old device driver was that it patched this buffer overflow. So people who run Solaris on H.P. Hardware BE WARE. The HP guys don't seem to make it easy for Solaris to work on their hardware like the Toshiba and Dell and Fujitsu guys do. Quite the opposite, I have a feeling that those HP guys would love to throw a monkey wrench or two into the gears of the Solaris machine to make Solaris look bad and make their own HP-UX UNIX look good if they could. Asking why Solaris has problems on HP hardware is like wondering why your Toyota automobile never seems to run quite right after you take it in to the Ford Dealership to get an oil check. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
