[ On Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 15:38:27 (+1000), matthew green wrote: ]
> Subject: re: First Boot fails! 
>
> unfortunately, i had problems with both SS2's and IPXen.... i've
> had them basically forever.  never had a /sparc machine stay up
> more than 100 or so days until i had a sun4m machine.  they're
> sitting in my closet if anyone in melbourne wants them :-)

I've never had any problems with uptime on SS2's, or even on SS1 and
SS1+, though I have heard from others who've claimed there are some few
SS2s which did have strange hardware problems even when running SunOS-4,
and even as compared to nearly identical machines sitting right beside
them on a shelf and running nearly identical loads.

It's just the uptime of certain long-running and frequently context
switching programs that I've always had probles with on SS1 and SS1+,
such as the Xserver in particular, and to a lesser extent named come to
think of it.

Indeed even the SS1+ that I'm running 1.3.2 on right now is already over
44 days.  Just the same I wouldn't call it "rock solid stable" beacuse
of the unexplainable program crashes.  I think my SS2 was up to over 300
days at one point with 1.3.2.

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