RE: Sun Boxes Crashing

Sun's memory cache problem:

 http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/09/05/000905hnsunmemory.xml

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rama Malladi [SMTP:rmalladi_at_inteliant.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 2:41 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Sun Boxes Crashing
>
> We have several Sun boxes (Solaris 2.6) running Oracle 8, 8i. One of the
> boxes (description given below) Kept rebooting and this machine happens to
> run one of the most critical billing systems (Murphy's law!).
>
> Overall, this machine rebooted some 40 times, in a period of 2 months and
> some nights, it rebooted as many as 10 times! Our SysAdmin contacted Sun
> Engineers and they never told us what exactly was the problem, and kept
> replacing CPUs, Memory boards, SCSI cards etc ... This happened several
> times and last week there was an article in Computer Weekly magazine
> saying
> several customers were having this kind of problem on Sun boxes and Sun
> tried to hush up the matter ...!!
>
> Has anybody else faced this kind of situation?
>
> Just curious ...
> Rama
>
> =================================
> System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u 8-slot Sun Enterprise
> E4500/E5500
> SunOS uscaelmux06 5.6 Generic_105181-21 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
>
> --
> Author: Rama Malladi
> INET: rmalladi_at_inteliant.com
>
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Received on Thu Sep 07 2000 - 13:58:00 CDT