I have operated several SPARC Station 5s at several speeds including 170MHz,
and I have found all of them to run perfectly stable.
This includes one serving as DNS server, which just keeps on ticking.

Brian Hechinger(wonko@4amlunch.net) said 2004.06.23 09:33:07 +0000:
> I seem to remember that there were issues with the ss5/170 running non-Solaris
> operating systems being stable.  Something about the Fujitsu CPU having bugs
> that Solaris had workaround for.
> 
> Is this still an issue?  I'd love to run NetBSD on my ss5/170 boxes if they
> could be stable (production mail/dns servers)
> 
> thanks!!
> 
> -brian
> -- 
> "Performing a Google search on the fairly unique name you've chosen weeks
> ago for a piece of software you're writing, only to discover that the
> sole occurance of that name is as a pen-name for someone who spends his
> spare time writing X-rated PowerPuff Girls fan fiction is pretty-much a
> buzzkill."				-- Jonathan Patschke --