Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Jun 1996 04:12:30 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: real kernel bloat |
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 23:02:42 +1200 (NZST) From: "J. Sean Connell" <ankh@canuck.gen.nz>
No, and since this machine is about a month away from being our #1 machine, we're not going to be, either.
I can understand the concern. It's nice to be able to pass the buck to a paid support center and tell your users "I have the engineer on it now" when the machine tosses cookies. But we'll have that for SparcLinux some day.
Not that I think badly of SparcLinux; it's just that when you have a machine whose load average routinely goes above twenty (some days above 40), you kinda wanna have a known good and rock-solid OS behind it.
Load of 40? Try a load of 300/400 with 200 of those processes being crashme invocations and the rest being parallel builds, this is on an SMP 4 processor SS10 with 130MHZ HyperSparcs, and yes it runs SparcLinux.
Meanwhile I can bring Solaris2.x down in under 30 seconds flat on any sun4c/sun4m out there with very little effort....
I can't wait until there is a proof of concept SparcLinux box out there doing "real work", and I think there will be soon. Anyone will agree with me who has ever dealt with Sun support when they have hit a serious bug ;-)
Later, David S. Miller dm@sgi.com
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