On Tuesday, June 12, 2012, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 01:12:55AM -0400, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> > Evaluations of the Sheevaplug in particular revealed it tended to
> > overheat badly if you put any significant load on the networking
> > components.  Heating problems combined with poor quality control would
> > be my guess as to why that whole thing never flew.
> >
>
> I'm very happy with my Sheevaplug. It works with heavy cpu loads (full gnu
> system builds from time to time) for days, and works very good. It's
> serving me
> very well already three years I think.
>
> I've it connected to a 100Mbps switch though, no gigabit.
>
> I've replaced capacitors in its power supply twice, though - they blew up.
> I
> think the power supply is not very well designed, but those big capacitors
> are
> cheap.


I have a guruplug I've got very little time for, but getting Plan 9 on it
was no problem.  I don't do anything with heavy CPU or network usage on
Plan 9 anyway.  I'm a bit surprised at the thermal problems, and I believe
there was a promise to address them, but I lost interest.

Dave


>
> Regards,
> Lluís.
>
>