On Saturday, Feb 22, 2003, at 04:55 Australia/Sydney, Shannon Bach
wrote:

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reliable server in the house.  So I am wondering if you ever have
problems
with the AIX server crashing etc.?
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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