Enough already! (was: Re: MS Laugh-In)

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Thu Oct 19 18:31:12 2000

From: Enrico Badella <enrico.badella_at_softstar.it>


>years that Linux kernels have crashed on me, while my NT SP6 now that
I've
>added a soundblaster live has the tendancy of giving me a BSOD quite
>frequently. How can NT with MS audio drivers crash? This is only
>acceptable if you are doing your own drivers or hacking the kernel.


I had the same problem on my servers, killed the audio in the bios
and it persisted. The 4mb Trident AGP video driver was bad news.
Since it's a server I used the MS PCI XGA and it worked much better.
However, even with the BSOD, the system was still serving pages!
I didn't like the BSOD but the system was still intact.

The audio and video drivers in NT4 live in ring zero (low protection)
to make the gamers happy. NT3.51 didn't do this and was far less
prone. Better video and audio drivers often solve the problem.

My solution is keep the games, audio and high end video off the
NT box I want it robust. Put those things on a W9x crate and
play there.

>From a commercial product I would expect a reliability at least as
Solaris
>or VMS (well here I've asking probably too much)


;)

>Have you every though about docs? If you don't ave resource kit, that
kit
>other kit there is no way to get info about processes running un a NT
box.


Lessee, NT, three finger salute hit the correct tab and you get data and
can
even stop or kill them from there if they are not protected. there are
utilities
out there. Check Tucows!

>At least on unix you can do a man xxxxx. who knows what smss.exe or
csrss.exe
>do?


Even if you do know what they do what can you do about it, with it?

Allison
Received on Thu Oct 19 2000 - 18:31:12 BST