On Saturday 02 July 2005 12:46, Bruno Delbono wrote:
> Actually E4500's are not bad machines. Yes, they are slow compared to
> PeeCee's/servers these days, but they are still darn reliable. I had a
> couple of E4500's with 8x400 Mhz US-II ( 8 MB Cache), 8 GB RAM connected
> to a A5100. They ran reliably and flawlessly (except for replacing the
> battery on A5100). They have a lot of resilience to load. We've had load
> averages of up to 300-350 on the machine and it didn't break a sweat.
> I've had many other machine crumble to this heavy load.
Then you're luckier than us... About 40% of our E4500s had centerplane or
clockboard errors over the last year... :-( the system and io boards seem to
be fine but the clock boards definitely don't age gracefully...
But if you have working hardware, yep - they surely are stable...
> Now only if they were more energy friendly!
:-)
Peter.
