[Zope-DB] Oracle 8.1.7.1 on Solaris 8

[Matthew T. Kromer]

Note that there are oodles of Sun patches for Solaris, a lot of them=20
relating to threading.  Have you applied the latest Sun rollups?


On Tuesday, March 12, 2002, at 05:26 PM, Jorge O. Martinez wrote:

> Dario:
>
> We are planning to install it on a lower end Sun box, a single=20
> processor UltraSPARC IIi, but those problems seem pretty nasty anyway.=20=

> Anyone has more recent experience with Solaris on lower end HW? BTW=20
> Thanks for your feedback Dario and Paul.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jorge M.
>
> Dario Lopez-K=E4sten wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jorge O. Martinez" <jmartinez@eMediaMillWorks.com>
>> To: "Paul Browning" <paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk>
>> Cc: <zope-db@zope.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:18 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Zope-DB] Oracle 8.1.7.1 on Solaris 8
>>> Paul:
>>>
>>> Really? That does not sound good. Could you get it to work though?
>>>
>>> Jorge M.
>>>
>> Let me put it this way: it might be better now, but back then, =
because=20
>> of
>> the problems that where, it force me to become the proud owner of a 2=20=

>> CPU
>> dell rack.-mounted thing, running redhat. Until then, we where =
Solaris=20
>> only
>> for servers.
>> It really sucked on a Enterprise 450 with 1 or 2 gigs of ram and 4=20
>> CPUs.
>> Python problems, threading problems zope instabilities... etc etc.
>> Some of these issues have been resovled by pther snow, but zope the
>> threading problem is still there AFAIK. Zope really pushes Python to=20=

>> it's
>> limits and on solaris it seems to just not work well...
>> Sorry to be so negative.
>> /dario
>> - =
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>> Dario Lopez-K=E4sten     Systems Developer  Chalmers Univ. of =
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