RE: Sun Boxes Crashing

From: Diego Pessotto <Diego.Pessotto_at_linkvest.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:11:35 +0200
Message-Id: <10612.116375@fatcity.com>

Hi,

We installed at the end of july a SUN5500 and we got last month a crash. We asked SUN support and they told us that the machine has no hardware problems, but they could not explain why the unix box had crashed.

We use a SUN5500 8CPU/8Gb running Solaris 2.7.

Diego
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Diego Pessotto
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rama Malladi [mailto:rmalladi_at_inteliant.com] Sent: mercredi, 6. septembre 2000 23:41
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

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Author: Rama Malladi
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