RE: RE: surprising result:8CPU Sun 3500 VS 4CPU Dell 6650

Actually, I know that IBM has some boxes with redundant ("RAIDed" -- their term) memory, although I don't know which class of machine.

Rich

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com              Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Lee [mailto:slee_at_dollar.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 11:55 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: RE: surprising result:8CPU Sun 3500 VS 4CPU Dell 6650
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > And talking about that excellent High Avaliable
> > feature like CPU/Memory corruption and the server still
> > run
>
> Maybe I should clarify. If you lose a memory module, the box
> will almost
> certainly reboot itself and come back up with the memory module taken
> offline. You can't suddenly have a chunk of memory disappear
> from the OS
> and the OS continue as if nothing happened. I think the same
> thing is true
> for sudden CPU failure.

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