Re: [opensuse] 4GB computer slowdown

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The Friday 2007-05-11 at 07:47 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:

On Friday 11 May 2007 07:29, Petr Klíma wrote:
Well, it's quite surprising, but Linux is by order of magnitude more
sensitive to hardware stability. Memory errors, overclocking and such
may cause Linux to produce weird errors while Windows run
smoothly. ...

I know this is the conventional wisdom, and I don't really dispute it,
but I am at a loss to explain why it would be so.

Does anyone know where this extra sensitivity to marginal hardware
originates? Why would Windows be more tolerant? Do they do something to
be more robust (e.g., catch hardware fault exceptions and attempt
retries or some such tactic)?

My guess is that linux tries to use all the capacity the hardware should
have, in order to improve speed and throughput. This also means that if
the hardware fails to do wht it should do, linux will also fail.

Probably windows is more conservative, uses a more genereic approach - or
they used more faulty harware when testing, or use conservative generic
specifications.

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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.

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