Domino 6.5 AIX 5.2 Worthy?

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Hello,

Ive been reading several posts about problems more or less like mine when running Domino 6.5 on AIX 5.2.

We have applied patch PTF 486444 and also we still have these problems:

  • Domino crashes after some time working (few hours - inestability)

  • While now every server task launches, If I stop it and try to start it again it wont start, or it may crash the Domino Server.

We are wondering if this has something to be with the way we start Domino.

I didnt find much usefull info for domino 6.5 under AIX.

We start the domino server like this:

Data path= /home/notes/serverdata

Domino Bin path = /home/notes/domino6bin/lotus/bin

when we want to launch we:

  • access through ssh with the notes user,

  • go to /home/notes/serverdata

  • and then execute ‘nohup /home/notes/domino6bin/lotus/bin/server &’

Are we doing something wrong? Should we add any environment variables?

Thanks in advance

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Subject: Domino 6.5 AIX 5.2 Worthy?

hello; i am new to this forum (even to lotus :slight_smile: ) .I am haveing some IOCP problem in configuring lotus in aix 5.2 .I have to apply the patch PTF 486444 to solve the problems. Can any please point me to the links for downloading this patch

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Subject: Domino 6.5 AIX 5.2 Worthy?

You are not alone on this one, I have just started testing Domino 6.5 on aix 5.2 (with the latest fixes) and I am experiencing the same problems. I will let you know how I get on, but has anyone else seen this ? When my Domino server crashes it leaves no error logs, seems to be after running for about 3 hours.

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Subject: RE: Domino 6.5 AIX 5.2 Worthy?

Let me tell you my story.

I not only had the problem of it crashing more than 7 times a day but also after starting domino it was impossible to stop a server task and launch it up again or launch any new tasks, cause it did nothing or ended crashing… well, a complete hell for any Domino Administrator.

After several tries and dispair and since we had to provide reliable access to our Lotus Domino Server I sent a note demanding an stable platform with Domino and they authorised me to install Linux in a new box.

Finally I installed debian 3.0 woody with latest updates and a custom kernel 2.4.22 for netfinity 4500R with 3 raid disks in raid 5.

I needed to install an old “libstdc” lib but domino works greats without any kind of problems… no morre problems with domino multithreading…

Since the first user access to the new Linux box, they told me the access was fast as hell… and the difference was huge, which stilll is…

So, my suggestion… move to Linux or any other platform you can afford that will let you just worry about administering your Lotus Domino Server.

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Subject: RE: Domino 6.5 AIX 5.2 Worthy?

Daniel, cheers for your advice I may try that in the future…however I have had success thanks to this previous solution posted by Bill4 Buchan (which also applies to Linux) : http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd6forum.nsf/55c38d716d632d9b8525689b005ba1c0/a2367fa56b315e5585256d5d00681500?OpenDocument

I increased the soft and hard file limits by a large amount just to see if it made a difference and so far the server has not crashed again. so I now have a stable (so far) installation on AIX 5.2.002. Cheers Bill !