RE: AS/400 - iSeries uptime statistics -- MIDRANGE-L

Joe--

I was mainly concerned with the myth (!?)(don't yell!) that Windoze servers are less stable than the iSeries. With the $5K servers, we've had very few instances of our servers ending abnormally. And, after an incident a couple of weeks ago when our production iSeries decided to head South... well, I can't speak about reliability of hardware at work anymore. ):

I also feel that we on the iSeries have a bunch of subsystems under one roof. The Windoze side has multiple subsystems, each running on its own piece of hardware. Yes, the single roof makes sharing resources between subsystems easier. When we restart a subsystem (if we need to), the Windoze side reboots the entire piece of hardware.

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

For what use?  How big of a database do you have on your $5K server?
How many users?   Doing what kind of transaction load?  Or is it a file
server?  There's a huge difference in serving up stream files and
handling database transactions.  When you talk about stability, you have
to talk about workloads.  Personally, I have found $700 Unix boxes to be
VERY stable for specific workloads, such as web serving.  Dedicated
servers don't get nearly the load a business logic server gets.

Joe

 From: PaulMmn

 The 1K$ system is probably not a stable operating system.  But the
 $5K systems we have are very stable.  I'd have to say that they are

> at least as stable as the iSeries hardware.

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