Re: ORACLE7 errors / Alpha VMS patch

In article <1993Dec3.172140.20726_at_icf.hrb.com>, mmm_at_icf.hrb.com (MAX M. MAGLIARO) writes:
> I am having problems running ORACLE 7.0.13 on an Alpha/AXP with OpenVMS 1.5 .
> ORACLE randomly aborts with 600 or 602 (access violation or internal
> exception) errors. I have just discovered that there is a Virtual
> Memory Mgmt patch to OpenVMS 1.5.
>
> From DEC: Many users running ORACLE applications on Alphas experienced this
> problem. It turned out that the VMS page manager occasionally
> pulled in the wrong page when it moved pages in and out of
> a program's virtual space. Since ORACLE is such a page happy,
> resource-hungry monster, it pages a *lot* and experienced the
> problem.

Gee. They make it sound like a bug in Oracle don't they. Well, I guess if that darn Oracle software didn't page at all it would work just fine on our new Digital/Alpha hardware & software. I sure hope they don't use any application software that pages too much at any hospitals that run this "VMS page manager" otherwise it could void the warranty of a few patients BUT that's the application's fault isn't it 8^}.

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