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.