RE: Sun Boxes Crashing

One of our 4500(sun 2.7) suddenly reboots several times a month. Sun said that it is our configuration problem. -Linda

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From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of EV1 dbatk Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 4:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Sun Boxes Crashing

Apparently, the issue is with the UltraSparc II processors external cache. Sun still hasn't nailed the problem after 18 months. The effect is random, although we've had our 450's suddenly reboot for no reason....not good. The article is probably still at computerworld.com

Arthur Kettelhut
Sr. DBA
Air Liquide America

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 4:40 PM

> 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
>
> --
> Author: Rama Malladi
> INET: rmalladi_at_inteliant.com
>
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