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

Yeah.  I've been hoping that when they release the 2.6 kernels for sparc 
that this problem will go away.  Yeah, the beast is a little much in a 
home environment but the price was very right and I couldn't pass it up. ;-)
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