From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fox Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 03:20:01 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Basic Advice Needed Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org I have some very basic newbie questions. Is ia64 Linux stable enough for use for very long running and high memory using (> 5 GB) scientific computations? And a followup, if it is stable, is this stability really only found on kernels above a certain number? If so, what number should I be upgrading to? And finally, are certain distributions more committed to ia64 niche market? And is HP-UX more stable? Longer story: I bought a Dell workstation of off eBay and the seller is trying to install Linux on it. He installed SuSE from the isos and claims it is unstable at high memory. Unfortunately, he doesn't have any commerical OSes so it is hard to tell if this is a hardware or software problem. He also can't make install CDs for RedHat because RedHat doesn't release ia64 isos. :) -- ------------------------ Jeremy T. Fox jerfox@stanford.edu