Re: [opensuse] 4GB computer slowdown

On Friday 11 May 2007 09:51, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2007-05-11 at 07:47 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
...

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.

That doesn't really explain it, does it? If there's some subset of a
machine's capabilities not used by Windows but used by Linux, why would
it exactly correspond to that which tends to fail or misfire in all
those cases of systems that run without overt error on Windows but
cause crashes or malfunctions under Linux?


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

Possible, but it's still not a well-formed idea. Computers are digital
devices. They don't really have any continuous properties, other than,
perhaps, some issues around failure probabilities (or inter-arrival
times) w.r.t. device temperature.


Randall Schulz
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