-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-05-11 at 07:47 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Friday 11 May 2007 07:29, Petr Klíma wrote:
Well, it's quite surprising, but Linux is by order of magnitude more sensitive to hardware stability. Memory errors, overclocking and such may cause Linux to produce weird errors while Windows run smoothly. ...
I know this is the conventional wisdom, and I don't really dispute it, but I am at a loss to explain why it would be so.
Does anyone know where this extra sensitivity to marginal hardware originates? Why would Windows be more tolerant? Do they do something to be more robust (e.g., catch hardware fault exceptions and attempt retries or some such tactic)?
My guess is that linux tries to use all the capacity the hardware should have, in order to improve speed and throughput. This also means that if the hardware fails to do wht it should do, linux will also fail. Probably windows is more conservative, uses a more genereic approach - or they used more faulty harware when testing, or use conservative generic specifications. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGRJ8itTMYHG2NR9URAudoAJsG0ffHpOixRx1aOr6NpOEV5nESPQCfehXm zpF+OxwRB8uReqXTW3K0VaE= =VdZJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----