Sometimes I've come into work to find a SCO kernel panic with no obvious explaination. They also degrade significantly under load, despite best efforts at tuning. (However this could be the hardware, or the application itself - hard to tell).
I work in what used to be mainly a SCO shop, mostly OpenServer 5.0.6 machines at 20+ remote sites and several 5.0.4-6 machines at the main office with one Unixware 7 thrown in just to keep things interesting (we started out with SCO 3.2.4.2 many moons ago - Remember installing an OS with floppy disks?). Slowly we dropped the remote servers and centralized to dual Compaq servers for the primary application (not available in any other OS). Unixware 7 died a horrible death, and Windows servers starting spreading like the plague. Now we're down to only 4 SCO boxes in the whole organization. With that history in mind I have to say that unexplained panics generally mean an aging platform, NOT a faulty OS. I've had a few of the remote servers blow panics, but it was usually a RAM problem or, in one case, an overheated CPU (cooling fan failed). Replacing the RAM fixed the problems.
And yes, tuning means a lot with SCO. The software we are running ran like a champ on those dual Compaq monsters until one morning when the application blew through one of the tuned parameters (ISTR it was MAXBUF) and all hell broke loose. Upping MAXBUF fixed the problem. I can't say there is no load degradation but with 44 telnet sessions running at this moment on 18 HUGE databases if there is any it's negligable.
The point is that the old SCO OS was good and stable. It wasn't Linux, nor was it meant to be. It was a large system, scalable OS meant to do major hump work, and be supported by people who know how to do more than click a mouse, and who were capable of recalculating an mtune value without taking off their shoes. The problem with the SCOg is that it's trying to compete with Linux while at the same time calling it names and constantly shooting itself in the foot. If ever there was a better textbook example of how to ruin the reputation of a once-dependable product I have yet to see it.
OpenServer is now a joke. The sad part is that the joke will be remembered long after the stable OS it descended from is forgotten.
"For the same reason you're guilty if you assist a criminal to escape the police. Sure, you didn't walk into the bank and take the money, but the guy you knowingly drove away did."
Someone needs to take this film, splice it together with "The Passion" and some cheesy 50s stag film. Then maybe overlay the audio with some death metal, punk rock, and 60s soap commericals.
Ah. That would be The Director's Cut, due out Q4 of 2004.
While you're at it, RIP Joe Niagra, a veritable icon for Philly radio.
And RIP DECENT radio, killed by the concepts of "format-of-the-minute", satellite (who needs local talent?) feeds, 20 cut cookie-cutter music lists, 30 minute (advertising) hours, talk radio, and Clear Channel.
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And yes, tuning means a lot with SCO. The software we are running ran like a champ on those dual Compaq monsters until one morning when the application blew through one of the tuned parameters (ISTR it was MAXBUF) and all hell broke loose. Upping MAXBUF fixed the problem. I can't say there is no load degradation but with 44 telnet sessions running at this moment on 18 HUGE databases if there is any it's negligable.
The point is that the old SCO OS was good and stable. It wasn't Linux, nor was it meant to be. It was a large system, scalable OS meant to do major hump work, and be supported by people who know how to do more than click a mouse, and who were capable of recalculating an mtune value without taking off their shoes. The problem with the SCOg is that it's trying to compete with Linux while at the same time calling it names and constantly shooting itself in the foot. If ever there was a better textbook example of how to ruin the reputation of a once-dependable product I have yet to see it.
OpenServer is now a joke. The sad part is that the joke will be remembered long after the stable OS it descended from is forgotten.
Ah. That would be The Director's Cut, due out Q4 of 2004.
While you're at it, RIP Joe Niagra, a veritable icon for Philly radio.
And RIP DECENT radio, killed by the concepts of "format-of-the-minute", satellite (who needs local talent?) feeds, 20 cut cookie-cutter music lists, 30 minute (advertising) hours, talk radio, and Clear Channel.
The victim can't be seen. when you register coffee.com and sit on it, you're preventing someone else from registering coffee.com and using it.
Learn the difference between "victim" and "first come-first served".
as early as 1993 microsoft corporation owned 19% of SCO, then called santa clara operations
Uhm.... Santa Cruz Operations.
Santa Clara Operations is someone else entirely.
128k, you were priveliged, now wait until this ends up as a "my computer was crapper than yours" thread Computer???? You had a COMPUTER??