From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 25 18:43:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFD5E14D4F for ; Sun, 25 Apr 1999 18:43:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 24247 invoked by alias); 26 Apr 1999 01:43:07 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 24219 invoked by uid 0); 26 Apr 1999 01:43:07 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 26 Apr 1999 01:43:07 -0000 Message-ID: <3723C496.7C2A08F7@uswest.net> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 18:42:46 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Arisandy , Freebsd Questions Subject: Re: Linux crashes (was: Mail server....) References: <00d501be8ede$5d72ef90$650c600a@divre5.net> <19990426100747.P9887@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > It's also not quite typical of Linux to fail that often. Unless you > know the reason for the crashes, it's possible that it could be a > hardware problem, in which case you'll probably see similar problems > running FreeBSD on it. Not so. Linux may work great for desktops, but it does all manner of unhappy things when you put a heavy load on it. My server stress tests can make Linux crash within minutes. FreeBSD just keeps going, admitted very slowly, but I've yet to make it crash due to the load. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message