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To: Tony Viola who wrote (158720)2/14/2002 6:00:44 AM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (3) of 186894
 
Re: OK, but this 40 hour run time "without problems" description made it sound like, to some, that there then became problems.

Wintel boxes haven't been stable under high load for extended periods of time. SUNs are. It's primarily a function of the OS and the drivers, but it remains the case.

Our old dual processor PIII systems used to routinely crash whenever the disk subsystem and network were very heavily loaded for more than a few minutes (something that was fairly rare, fortunately). We still have a few of those boxes left, and the same hardware, now running Win2K server instead of NT 3.51 server, is much more reliable.

But wintel has a long way to go to catch up to the RAS SUN has had for 10 years.
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