[geeks] Sun Fire V210: A New Low in SPARC Servers?

[Scott Howard]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:54:28AM -0500, Bryan Fullerton wrote:
> I was bit by this after a RAM upgrade on a production V490 at a client
> site. Upgrade time: ~15 minutes. Startup time: ~40 minutes.

You mean you would have otherwise have done a RAM upgrade and not run
"max" level diagnostics?

There are arguments for and against running them on every power cycle,
but there are no valid arguments against running them after a memory/cpu
upgrade.

  Scott.