Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 20:44:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Newbie <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> Cc: Bsd Newbie <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: overclocking and FreeBSD stablity... Message-ID: <20010901034424.61827.qmail@web20104.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010831182216.A11694@xor.obsecurity.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 > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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