[Zope-DB] Oracle 8.1.7.1 on Solaris 8

Jorge O. Martinez jmartinez@emediamillworks.com
Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:26:01 -0500


Dario:

We are planning to install it on a lower end Sun box, a single processor 
UltraSPARC IIi, but those problems seem pretty nasty anyway. Anyone has 
more recent experience with Solaris on lower end HW? BTW Thanks for your 
feedback Dario and Paul.

Regards,

Jorge M.

Dario Lopez-Kästen 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 of
> the problems that where, it force me to become the proud owner of a 2 CPU
> dell rack.-mounted thing, running redhat. Until then, we where Solaris only
> for servers.
> 
> It really sucked on a Enterprise 450 with 1 or 2 gigs of ram and 4 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 it's
> limits and on solaris it seems to just not work well...
> 
> Sorry to be so negative.
> 
> /dario
> 
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