On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Edward S. Marshall wrote:
> Solaris simply started losing it's mind after prolonged periods of uptime
> (specific case was a pair of Oracle servers; after a few months of uptime,
> the machines started behaving badly, zombies refusing to be reaped, etc;
> half-way through shutdown on one of them, the kernel finally just got it
> over with and panic'd ;-). (This is Solaris/SPARC, if it matters.)
Apparently Solaris/SPARC is the main development platform for Oracle (at
least two years ago) so it does not get any better (worse?) than that.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons they are rolling out a Linux version of
Oracle 8.
Bo
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