From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Jun 8 0:43:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 838C437B9E1 for <freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 00:43:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA16300; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 00:43:03 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> Message-Id: <200006080743.AAA16300@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: HP Netserver LPr In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006072352550.3616-100000@frond.minions.com> from Tom at "Jun 7, 0 11:58:41 pm" To: bifrost@frond.minions.com (Tom) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 00:43:03 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As I recall, Tom wrote: > FreeBSD and Solaris X86 run really nicely on them, Linux blows > itself apart because the boards use NCR U2W chip sets on them and > there is some kind of interaction and race condition which causes > ext2 to hose itself on them at random intervals. We're using LPng (the LP Next Generation) on our FreeBSD printer servers. The driving factor was that our mainframes (Pyramid DC/OSx) croaked on the extremely verbose response we got from an NT print server status request (buffer overrun, the response for a detailed status request gives everything that happened since boot). We set up the Linux systems as prophylaxis for the Pyramids. Don't ask me why we didn't implement LPng on the Pyramids, or why the condoms weren't FreeBSD. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message