Re: [Networker] NSR 75SP3 : Stable for prod ?

My goodness!  All that time in development, testing by QA, I assume there was a 
beta program as
well... and still it takes three fixes to get it to operate as it goes out the 
door?  That is
depressing news.

Perhaps EMC needs to look to their customers who are reporting these problems 
and provide
incentives to them to take part in a beta program since it appears their own QA 
group is not
quite up to the task.

Frank

On 8/30/10 5:38 AM, Jóhannes Karl Karlsson wrote:
> We had some problems with 7.5.3 to begin with when we installed build 514. 
> Groups of Oracle clients not finishing properly (hanging).
> 
> EMC then released build 531 and few days later build 533. We installed 
> NetWorker 7.5.3.1 build 533 and our problems got even worse.
> 
> EMC then released a patched version of savegrp.exe build 533. After 
> installing that patched savegrp.exe binary we have not had any problems.
> 
> NetWorker 7.5.3.1 build 533 with patched savegrp.exe binary seems to be 
> stable and good.
> 
> Johannes
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
> On Behalf Of Len Philpot
> Sent: 17. Ã¡gÃºst 2010 15:26
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] NSR 75SP3 : Stable for prod ?
> 
>> STANLEY R. HORWITZ 
>>
>> What ulimit settings are you using and how many clients are you backing 
> up?
>>
>> Here's what I have â€¦
>>
>> [root@puss nsr_scripts]# ulimit -a
>> core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
>> data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
>> file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
>> pending signals                 (-i) 1024
>> max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 32
>> max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
>> open files                      (-n) 1024
>> pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8
>> POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) 819200
>> stack size              (kbytes, -s) 10240
>> cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
>> max user processes              (-u) 143360
>> virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited
>> file locks                      (-x) unlimited
> 
> Your's looks like Solaris 10, but this is on 9 (SPARC):
> 
> # ulimit -a
> core file size (blocks)     unlimited
> data seg size (kbytes)      unlimited
> file size (blocks)          unlimited
> open files                  unlimited
> pipe size (512 bytes)       10
> stack size (kbytes)         8192
> cpu time (seconds)          unlimited
> max user processes          29995
> virtual memory (kbytes)     unlimited
> 
> The two groups that were abending had 41 and 25 clients each (not huge) 
> and we have a little over 100 clients total. However, the old ulimit 
> settings (which I don't recall) were from the original Solaris 8 
> installation back in 2003 (Networker 6.1). So, they weren't exactly big.
> 
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