[Wolves] Solaris 10

[Simon Burke]

On 27/2/04 11:36 am, "David Goodwin" <david at openminds.co.uk> wrote:

> Simon Burke wrote:
>> Hiya,
>> I know its not quite linux, but as im downloading it for a potential
>> webserver, mailserver etc at home, I just want to ask what people think of
>> one point I found with solaris 10.
>> 
>> Predictive Self Healing
>> -----------------------
>> 
>> Predictive Self Healing delivers a breakthrough approach to service
>> availability with online error detection and auto recovery.
>>     ?     Reduced Downtime. Solaris 10 OS proactively removes components
>> before failure (CPU and memory) and automatically restarts failed
>> applications and services. Problems are diagnosed in milliseconds rather
>> than hours.
> 
> Restarting failed applications and services is nothing all that special
> - you can get things like e.g. Mon which monitor services and can
> restart them on failure. The milliseconds bit is interesting however, as
> that almost implies very frequent polling of a service, so I suspect
> there is something new with this.
> 
> thanks
> David.
> 
http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/10/
Give's a better list of features, there's a lot of good stuff there in
theory, but I don¹t know how it performs yet, I'll let you know when I try
it, if I can find 3 blank cd's in this place.