[comp.unix.ultrix] Ultrix 4.0 and the 5800

grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) (08/19/90)

Well, the Ultrix 4.0 distribution finally showed up and I went through
enough of the installation rituals get build a test system and boot it
up - it seemed to run and didn't immediatly eat my disks or anything nasty.

Is anybody out there actually running 4.0 on a 5800 in a ~64 user
time-sharing/NFS server production environment?  What, if any, kinds of
problems are people seeing with 4.0?

By the way, reading all the release notes and stuff, it looks like the
guys a DEC have actually done a pretty good job at fixing some of the
traditional Ultrix 3.X problems that were strictly "grin and bear it"
problems up till now.  I hope there are'nt too many "interesting" new
bugs/"features" though...

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evans@decvax.dec.com (Marc Evans) (08/20/90)

In article <13882@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
(George Robbins) writes:
|> Is anybody out there actually running 4.0 on a 5800 in a ~64 user
|> time-sharing/NFS server production environment?  What, if any, kinds
of
|> problems are people seeing with 4.0?

In the Ultrix Engineering Group, a number of 58** machines are used as
the
primary production machines. The MUP should have addressed any problems
that
have been found/fixed to date, but with any major release, you should
expect
a couple of problems to sleeze out to the customer level.

The result of an uptime request for one of the 5840 machines yeilds the
following:

 12:46pm  up 4 days, 16 mins,  56 users,  load average: 2.54, 2.66,
2.07

The result of a 'df | grep : | wc for the same machine yeilds the
following:

      96     576    8250

As you can see, UEG makes pretty extensive use of the 58** machines
through
normal use...

- Marc
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