Craig,
I would like to ask you to provide some more specifics as far as what you are defining as "unreliable". For myself, I haven't seen a Solaris system go down, due to OS specific reasons, since 2.5. 2.5.1 cleaned most things up from there.
Is there any specific issues that you can point out for us to help you troubleshoot? Do you have any messages in your log files? Or anything to indicate that you might be encountering hardware issues such as a failing memory SIMM/DIMM or sectors of a disk going bad? Do you know that your system is getting good, clean power? Are other environmental issues in place?
Do you suspect that your students, or another source have hacked, or placed malicious code on the system?
To "get to the punchline", IMHO, Solaris is for most intensive purposes, a rock solid operating system. If you have symptoms, log error messages, etc, please post them and we can help you troubleshoot. I feel that for most instances, tunable parameters are something that can/will optimize an existing system for a particular environment or application. In most cases, tunable parameters are not typically something that will make or break system stability.
Looking forward to your further postings,
Jerry K
Craig Bumpstead wrote:
Hi,
We have a Solaris 8 server used for student development. As the semester wears on, the server becomes more unreliable, probably due to students crashing code etc.
Does anyone know of a document or tunable parameters that would aid in making the server more robust??
Cheers,
Craig
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