From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 31 18:22:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-54.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3F4E37B405 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 18:22:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B8B1E66C80; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 18:22:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 18:22:16 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Sean Chittenden Cc: Bsd Newbie , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: overclocking and FreeBSD stablity... Message-ID: <20010831182216.A11694@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010901000141.72602.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com> <2001@=> <20010831173046.C23931@rand.tgd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010831173046.C23931@rand.tgd.net>; from sean@chittenden.org on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 05:30:46PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 05:30:46PM -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote: > > Recently I installed Solaris 8 on the machine and tried running it > > overclocked... Solaris performs horribly with an overclocked processor.= =20 > > It freezes every other second and gives error messages on boot. >=20 > Slowaris wasn't meant to be a performance system and probably chokes > when it runs at speeds above 400Mhz. This is a fairly disingenuous statement. If the OS is dying on an overclocked processor, it's because the processor is failing under the CPU load. You'll have the same problem with FreeBSD or any other OS if you push it in the right way. > I have yet to hear of a report of an overclocked x86 system not working > with FreeBSD (if you don't overheat your system that is). Seriously, it > should work. This is untrue. If you overclock your CPU beyond the point where it works reliably, well, your OS will exhibit the signs of that failure. End of story. Kris --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7kDhIWry0BWjoQKURAk2fAKCZl/7SNwmMvxBqZqHQjwXbWEXRMACaA0H6 I5ygj0ScXmkw2EEggPQoWpk= =hJ30 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message