On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 03:29:25PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > This also interested me: > > * Linux system crashed > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2011-11/msg00008.html > > * OpenIndiana system crashed same way as Linux system > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2011-11/msg00017.html > > I cannot help but wonder if the Linux and OpenIndiana installations were > more stressful on the hardware -- getting more out of the system, maybe > resulting in increased power/load, which in turn resulted in the systems > locking up (shoddy PSU, unstable mainboard, MCH problems, etc.). > > My point is that Francois states these things in such a way to imply > that "DragonflyBSD was more stable",
Same thing can be said for FreeBSD, only Linux and OpenIndiana crashed reliably if I remember correctly. > when in fact I happen to wonder the > opposite point -- that is to say, Linux and OpenIndiana were trying to > use the hardware more-so than DragonflyBSD, thus tickled what may be a > hardware-level problem. I actually ran the benchmarks on two different machines with the same hardware -- brand new Supermicro boxes with ECC memory and no cut corners. Since then, I've found I could stop the Linux crashes by disabling some options in the BIOS setup: - advanced ACPI settings (don't remember exactly which ones) - and a new WHEA one. WHEA means Windows Hardware Error Architecture. For all I know, it may have been the only culprit but I didn't have time to verify if the machines also ran fine with only this option disabled. -- Francois Tigeot _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-performance-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
