Original Problem: We had a Sun 12k delivered in August. It ran fine until late December when we had a board replaced due to a CPU failure. Since then we have replaced 3 of the 7 CPU boards in the gadget. Tonight, one of the CPUs on one of the replace boards died. Anyone else out there with a 12k/15k care to share their experiences in this regard? My bosses are starting to get a antsy and are openly questioning the trustworthiness of the box. Thanks to everyone who sent me answers and insight. I was shocked at the number of folks on this list who have a 10k, 12k, or 15k. The general consensus was 1. The UltraIII cpus may have a problem similar to those with the early UltraII cpus. 2. Check the environmentals. SunVTS suite may have some clues. Solution: Sun support wanted us to apply the following patches: 112488-11 112481-09 112539-03 112831-01 We did. The "dead" or "problem" CPU magically came back to life. We'll see if things hold together. Perhaps the 3 replaced boards didn't need to be replaced at all. We are looking into the environmentals too. The thing we're learning with this machine is how incredibly patch hungry this machine seems to be. This is going to be a long term issue in a production environment as management is a little reluctant to buy another 12k for us to test these patches. Go figure! _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Mar 5 00:01:58 2003
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