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Paul Heinlein wrote: |
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> On 7/27/05 7:36 AM, Philip Leonard wrote: |
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>> I'm certainly jealous. My E4500 will only run a couple of days before |
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>> it hangs requiring a reboot. Sometimes it will still respond to pings |
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>> but that's all. Never any console messages, just a hung box. On my |
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>> uniprocessor sparc's (U5 and U30) is is very stable but not on the |
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>> E4500 with 8 CPU's. It is running Gentoo with a 2.4 kernel (2.4.31 at |
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>> the moment). |
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> I've got a UP box (Blade 100), so I can't speak for SMP. Bummer about |
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> your E4500. Noise and power consumption aside, I'd love to have one. :-) |
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> I had the same "hangs without a trace" issue when I tried the 2.6 |
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> kernels. Sometimes the box would run for a couple weeks, sometimes just |
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> a day or two. The end result, however, was always a mysterious hang. |
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Yeah. I've been hoping that when they release the 2.6 kernels for sparc |
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that this problem will go away. Yeah, the beast is a little much in a |
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home environment but the price was very right and I couldn't pass it up. ;-) |
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