[Orca-users] Re: Ultra III systems and orcallator/SE

[Blair Zajac]

Steve Gilbert wrote:
> 
> Is anyone else running orcallator on Ultra III systems such
> as the Sun Fire 6800?
> 
> Here is what we have:
> 
> Sun Fire 6800
> Solaris 8
> 16 CPUs and 64 GB memory
> latest Recommended Patch Cluster
> SE Toolkit 3.2.1
> orcallator.se 1.32
> 
> ...I installed orcallator on these things about a month ago, and
> ever since then they have been crashing with some regularity.  We
> are getting AFSR errors and other memory-related panics.  The memory
> has been replaced, and Sun service seems to be stumped.  The only
> thing that we have changed on the boxes is the orcallator installation,
> so now my cronies are looking at me with raised eyebrows.  I know as
> soon as I mention this to Sun service, they will blame it all on us
> using open source software.  Personally, I don't see how on earth
> anything with orcallator or SE could be causing this, but thought it
> would be prudent to ask here if anyone else has seen problems on this
> platform.  Thanks.

I haven't heard anybody having system crashes because of orcallator.se.
orcallator.se (the process) has core dumps, but that's another point.

Note that SE is not open source and was built by Rich Pettit and Adrian
Cockroft, the later being employed by Sun.  The SE interpreter source
code is not available.  You can use this with the Sun service :)

I would see if you can get help on the se-feedback at setoolkit.com
mailing list.  Please cc orca-users on that thread so we can see
what they say.

Best,
Blair

-- 
Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
Web and OS performance plots - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/