I’ve just installed Oracle Client 10.2.0.1 on some machines and came accross an interesting bug with some tools (sqlplus, exp, etc.) hanging. It affects all systems with high uptime (according to the latest times() manual this time may vary depending on the OS and the kernel version) and 10.2.0.1 installed. It turns out that it [...]
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Mindlog of a FreakArchive for July 30th, 2006
Yesterday I had to completely reinstall a server. It came with two Hitachi 250 Gb SATA HDDs installed on a ALi M5281 SATA RAID Host Controller. However I prefer using software RAID-1 array as there are no spare disks and it would be hard to find exactly the same drive in case one of these [...]