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Re: [opensuse] 4GB computer slowdown
- From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 17:37:33 -0400
- Message-id: <4644E21D.2090004@xxxxxxxxxx>
Mike McMullin wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 20:38 +0200, Richard Bos wrote:
>
>> Op Friday 11 May 2007 20:24:49 schreef Petr Klíma:
>>
>>> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think it's more of an observation effect.
>>>>
>>>> Windows is so buggy, that when hardware errors do occur,
>>>> it's just background noise in the all-too-typical crashing
>>>> and failing...
>>>>
>>> Well, I don't agree at all. What I experienced was correct Windows
>>> behaviour (no errors, at least none reported) while in LInux programs
>>> crashed now and then without apparent reason.
>>>
>>> I agree with Carlos that LInux most probably uses hardware more
>>> aggressively, something like leaving less time between successive
>>> actions therefore leaving less time for the things (signal levels etc.)
>>> to settle down. That wouldn't be a problem for perfectly stable hardware
>>> whose critical operating frequencies are quite higher than the real
>>> operating ones (e.g. all transients finished soon enough). Once you got
>>> hardware which is operating at (or behind) the edge, you may get anything.
>>>
>> As example: we once obtained a computer that had been running windows fine for
>> ages. The moment we started installing linux on it, it failed. Indeed it
>> already failed during the installation! Running a memory check tool showed
>> that memory was bad => computer to the IT department, they stated that there
>> was nothing wrong with the system using their tools! After talking a bit
>> longer the faulty memory got replaced and the machine started to behave
>> correctly.
>>
>> From this we learned that linux uses indeed all resources that it has
>> available, while MS does probably not....
>>
>
> From my experience, Linux has more of the robustness required to run
> on shoddy hardware, once you get it up and running, than XP does.
>
>
Quite so. I have both SUSE 10.2 and XP on my ThinkPad. Linux is very
reliable on it, but XP frequently locks up.
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> On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 20:38 +0200, Richard Bos wrote:
>
>> Op Friday 11 May 2007 20:24:49 schreef Petr Klíma:
>>
>>> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think it's more of an observation effect.
>>>>
>>>> Windows is so buggy, that when hardware errors do occur,
>>>> it's just background noise in the all-too-typical crashing
>>>> and failing...
>>>>
>>> Well, I don't agree at all. What I experienced was correct Windows
>>> behaviour (no errors, at least none reported) while in LInux programs
>>> crashed now and then without apparent reason.
>>>
>>> I agree with Carlos that LInux most probably uses hardware more
>>> aggressively, something like leaving less time between successive
>>> actions therefore leaving less time for the things (signal levels etc.)
>>> to settle down. That wouldn't be a problem for perfectly stable hardware
>>> whose critical operating frequencies are quite higher than the real
>>> operating ones (e.g. all transients finished soon enough). Once you got
>>> hardware which is operating at (or behind) the edge, you may get anything.
>>>
>> As example: we once obtained a computer that had been running windows fine for
>> ages. The moment we started installing linux on it, it failed. Indeed it
>> already failed during the installation! Running a memory check tool showed
>> that memory was bad => computer to the IT department, they stated that there
>> was nothing wrong with the system using their tools! After talking a bit
>> longer the faulty memory got replaced and the machine started to behave
>> correctly.
>>
>> From this we learned that linux uses indeed all resources that it has
>> available, while MS does probably not....
>>
>
> From my experience, Linux has more of the robustness required to run
> on shoddy hardware, once you get it up and running, than XP does.
>
>
Quite so. I have both SUSE 10.2 and XP on my ThinkPad. Linux is very
reliable on it, but XP frequently locks up.
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