Comment on How to disable ACPI on productive Linux servers to decrease kernel panics and increase CPU fan lifespan by Walter.
What a misleading and outdated entry!
We’re running thousands (no exaggeration here) of Linux servers with ACPI enabled and at least in the last two years we haven’t have any incident which was ACPI related.
What’s more, if you follow this “tip”, you OS might not function properly as parts of it rely on ACPI.
To quote from http://doc.opensuse.org/products/draft/SLES/SLES-admin_sd_draft/cha.pmanage.html : “Some newer machines (especially SMP systems and AMD64 systems) need ACPI for configuring the hardware correctly. On these machines, disabling ACPI can cause problems.”
And who haven’t got a 64 bit machines, these days?
