RE: subject: iSeries Legends

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Chris Bipes wrote:

> Until recently our VM was Intel OS2 Based.  It just ran and ran.  The new VM
> is now Intel Unix.  We have had to re-boot a couple of times do to a bad com
> card logging too many errors.  Techs new about it at installed but did not
> bother to fix it.  The just disabled the port.  Having a error like this
> should not keep logging every 10 seconds until the log file reaches max
> size.  Also a log file reaching max size should not bring the application to
> a screeching halt.  Nothing to do with the OS but the Application, IMHO.

If you had to reboot then it is a shortcoming of the OS.  I don't care if
you have an app that cranks out logs at speeds of TB/second, if it
necessitates a reboot then the OS should be fixed.  And that's true of
every OS, even if it includes my personal favorite.

James Rich