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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 20:44:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bsd Newbie <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: overclocking and FreeBSD stablity...
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>,
	Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
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I kinda' agree with Sean... I ran RedHat 6.0 or 6.1 on this system a while
back... my CPU was oc'ed to 464 and it was running on default voltage... I
had zero problems... as a matter of fact it was extremely fast... with
256mb it never accesses the swap space.

I guess Solaris isn't well made for the PC... it's constantly using the
swap space.

I think i'm going to purge Solaris and stick with FreeBSD on this one.

-Sameer

--- Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 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. 
> > > It freezes every other second and gives error messages on boot.
> > 
> > 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

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