Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 7 Feb 1997 09:03:58 -0800 (PST) | From | Ian Main <> | Subject | Re: reliability |
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On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Robert Wuest wrote:
> Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > > Linux reliability has been questioned. Here is an example of demonstrated > > reliability. I re-booted it a few days ago to replace one of the tape drives > > which has worn out and needs to be refurbished. > > > > This machine runs our Name-Server. We have 300+ nodes that use this for > > all their lookups. It also backs up three Suns and a TCP/IP VAXen node > > every night from 1 to about 6 AM. > > > > # uptime > > 11:35am up 61 days, 14:43, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.03, 0.01 > > > > # uname -a > > Linux boneserver 2.0.16 #3 Mon Sep 2 09:25:13 EDT 1996 i486 > > > > # > > > > Cheers, > > Dick Johnson > > I wish I could say the same - I've had three crasshes on two different > machines in the last month. One of them today. No messages or oops, I > can't repeat it. I had to hit the reset button, yuck! Still, it's a > lot better than when I was using windows and would have to reboot many > times a week. > > I'm using them for (application) software development. Maybe I write > buggy software :-).
:-) I've been having some problems with my machine here lately too, doing just as you say, hard crashes. But a little fiddling with the ram and cache timings in the bios fixed it. I've come to the conclusion, that 99% of the time you get a hard crash like that, it's hardware. (or as others have mentioned, svgalib, but I never use it anymore. heh heh.. I suppose there's always solar flares too =) )
If it were me, I'd go set the ram/cache timings a little slower in the bios. Worked for me.
Ian
> > -- > Robert Wuest, PE Empowered Kemet Electronics > Sirius Engineering Company by robertwuest@kemet.com > mailto:rwuest@sire.vt.com Linux > > >
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