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>What I have heard Intel Solaris crashes too often. It means in future
Well, with proper care (patching the serious problems using
Sun's public available patches) and
choosing the conservative hardware (conservative in the sense that
the driver for it has been around at least more than 3 months or so,
etc..) the solaris for x86 has been running rather stable at my office.
For picking up hardware peripherals with well-supported drivers,
checking newsgroup postings before purchase might help.
Oh, of course, choose the stable hardware platform to begin with. No
tweaking of the memory access time to gain the last 3-5% gain on
speed, no overclocking, good cooling fan, reliable add-on memory
modules, respectable motherboard brand, nothing blocking the power
unit cooling fan's air flow, reliable power outlet (no surge), etc..
If following the advise above, Solaris on Intel still crashes often on
a given platform, I suspect that benchmark programs running under
Windows can't be run reliably continuosly on the hardware also. My
guess is that the hardware is flakey or the setup of the room is not
suited for 24H/D,7D/W,365D/Y usage.
As far as I can tell, there is NO intrinsic problem with Solaris for
x86 if you follow the advice above.
I have been running Solaris 2.4 for x86 for the last few years
for web servers without many problems.
Usually it stays up for three or four months until maintenace of the
power supply of the building or some such necessity arises.
The only hardware related problems were a couple of SCSI disks dying
since the deployment began.
On-going software security problems were dealt with
as the CERT security bulletin or Sun's security notice came out with
the publicly available patches, or home-brew solution based on the
freely available tools such as bind 8.x, sendmail 8.y., etc..
The PC is a Dell xm590 Pentium 90Mhz PC. True, it seems like a dinosaur
in today's market, but works just fine.
Dell's design of the chassis WITHOUT CPU cooling fan wins in this PC.
Power-suppy unit fan is enough to cool the inside.
I intend to use this PC until major component will break or the hits
to the web server shots up through the roof.
We just upgraded the BIOS for Y2K compliance :-)
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