Re: System Sizing question

From: Alan Moorman <alm2_at_XYZemail1.dss.state.va.us>
Date: 2000/04/21
Message-ID: <QzZL4.1$r5.92@dit4.state.va.us>#1/1

Crashes on an E10000?! We've been running one since 10/97 and had only 1 instance of a crash. Sun told us that had we configured things differently, the E10k's redundancy would have taken over and the box would not have halted. Of course, we don't have nearly the traffic of a site like e-Bay.

Alan

Michael Austin wrote in message <38FF9AC1.5EF8947C_at_nc.prestige.net>...
>I suppose no one has ever had the opportunity to deal with a system of this
>magnitude. I suppose this would be equivilent to the system that is
>currently running e-Bay. I was thinking that it might take something the
size
>of an E10000. Although, there have been rumors floating about that they
are
>going to scrap it because of some serious bugs that make it more
susceptible
>to crashes. The client I am dealing with insist on using Sun and I
suppose
>they really don't care about uptime, availability and scalabilility.
>
>Michael Austin
>Oracle Rdb /Oracle 7-8-8i DBA Consultant
>
Received on Fri Apr 21 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT