Re: Oracle8i mature?

I'm running three 8.1.5 instances on Solaris 2.6 and they've been up without any problems for more than two continuous months. However ... Just one processor for now, straightforward databases, all connections are TCP/IP, not running in archivelog mode since these are test instances. Your situation may be more complicated.

As far as production goes I have three 8.1.5 instances running an NT servers. And in a few weeks I plan to start moving half a dozen more of our 7.3.4 instances to 8.1.5. All these instances range from 15 to 30G so yours may well be a lot larger.

Most of the problems I see are on our Novell servers and they're usually not caused by Oracle. They're caused by oddball Novell abends.

Van

Martin Haltmayer <Martin.Haltmayer_at_0800-einwahl.de> wrote in message news:386143E8.6397D828_at_0800-einwahl.de...
> Hi all,
>
> we want to take live an Oracle8i 8.1.5 instance on Sun Solaris 2.6 for
> Internet purposes. Just today we found one shared server s000
> (multithreaded) eating one complete CPU but no other servers got any
> task to do. (A few days ago we had an ORA-00600 [17034], [3837594460],
> [0], [], [], [], [], [] regarding that shared server s000.) We had to
> take down the instance as no other shared server got any request and we
> were not able to do anything reasonable.
>
> Nearly every day (at various times) we find a few (three to four)
> ORA-00600 [17302] messages regarding the job queue processes snp0 and
> snp1.
>
> If I get this amount of ORA-00600 I am scared of unattended operation.
> What is your experience regarding Oracle8i and continuous operation,
> especially on Sun Solaris?
>
> I have the strong suspicion that 8.1.5 is neither mature nor stable.
> Does anyone of any site that runs 8.1.5 in production?
>
> Any hints appreciated.
>
> Martin
Received on Wed Dec 22 1999 - 17:36:51 CST