From: R.P. Aditya (aditya@ack.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2001 - 13:54:14 PDT
Is anyone on campus using the Sun Netra x1?
http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hw/networking/netrax/
For $995 list they are much smaller, featured and better priced than even
Intel-powered 1U servers, making them very attractive. I suspect you can also
run NetBSD on them for Solaris-haters.
If so, what has your experience been with them? Also can you confirm the
following about them:
patl@phoenix.volant.org (PM Lashley) Wrote:
> They are awfully nice little boxes; but there is one other flaw - there's
> a bug in Solaris 8 with respect to clock management on the X1 and Blade
> boxes. Even with (x)ntpd running, the system clock will occasionally (on
> the order of once or twice a day) jump by 20 or more seconds out of sync;
> and stay that way for a random time period. (One company I work with has
> a farm of 30 X1s and a distributed app where time synconization is =
> critical.
> Their boxes usually stay out of sync for about 5 to 20 minutes before ntpd
> slams them back where they belong.)
>
> (No, it isn't a configuration problem or lack of system patch. Sun are
> apparently aware of the problem and working on a patch upgrade.)
Thanks,
Adi
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