On Saturday, Feb 22, 2003, at 04:55 Australia/Sydney, Shannon Bach wrote:
<snip> reliable server in the house. So I am wondering if you ever have problems with the AIX server crashing etc.? <snip>
Just from my experience, yes, like and complex piece of software, AIX can crash. I've crashed too many systems (all accidentally) to say otherwise. In all cases, IBM has either suggested an existing patch which has fixed the problem, or, in a few cases, have engineered a patch which has fixed the problem. (OK, one exception to that, we've had one rare problem that we couldn't reproduce, and couldn't provide IBM any hard debugging info to even start to look at). We have quite a few busy systems with uptimes over 500 days. Given that TSM only really stresses I/O, network, threading and VM, AIX should be rock solid on recent maintenance levels.
Cheers, -- Paul Ripke Unix/OpenVMS/TSM/DBA 101 reasons why you can't find your Sysadmin: 68: It's 9AM. He/She is not working that late. -- Koos van den Hout
