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Has anybody upgrade from Solaris 2.4 to 2.5.  We are looking at going to
2.5 and would like to know any pitfalls, problems, gotchas etc.

Also - what is the upside of 2.5.  I hear Sun says the 2.5 kernal is faster -
Any truth??

Any problems using DiskSuite 4.0 (for disk mirroring), Common Desktop 1.0.1 that
is available with the 2.5 distribution.

Please respond by e-mail.

Thanks

        -chips

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Has anybody upgrade from Solaris 2.4 to 2.5.  We are looking at going to
2.5 and would like to know any pitfalls, problems, gotchas etc.

Also - what is the upside of 2.5.  I hear Sun says the 2.5 kernal is faster -
Any truth??

Any problems using DiskSuite 4.0 (for disk mirroring), Common Desktop 1.0.1 that
is available with the 2.5 distribution.

Please respond by e-mail.

Thanks

        -chips

*******************************************************************************

  Chips Fowler                          VOICE:          (505) 277-9078
  Network Adminstrator                  FAX:            (505) 277-3864

  915 Camino de Salud, Box 603
  Albuquerque, NM 87131-5271

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Solaris 2.5 kernal seems to be faster than the 2.4 kernals.  Overall
It seems to be as good if not some what better than 2.4

No expir on ODS 4.0 and mirroring

IMHO CDE right now is a giant memory leaky.  If you login and out
daily then it might not be to bad.  Stay logged in say over a couple
of night or worse a weekend and you can kiss you memory goodbye ;-)
It is a neat thing to play/expirement.

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Solaris 2.5 kernal seems to be faster than the 2.4 kernals.  Overall
It seems to be as good if not some what better than 2.4

No expir on ODS 4.0 and mirroring

IMHO CDE right now is a giant memory leaky.  If you login and out
daily then it might not be to bad.  Stay logged in say over a couple
of night or worse a weekend and you can kiss you memory goodbye ;-)
It is a neat thing to play/expirement.

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Engineering Network Services
Auburn University
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~rayh/rayh.html

   If you are not in the lead your view never changes.

I ran the upgrade on my system, and it went off without a hitch.  Install,
reboot, and go.

Quote:> Also - what is the upside of 2.5.  I hear Sun says the 2.5 kernal is faster -
> Any truth??

It does in fact seem to be faster, yes.

Quote:> Any problems using DiskSuite 4.0 (for disk mirroring), Common Desktop
1.0.1 that
> is available with the 2.5 distribution.

ODS seems to work just fine.  CDE is fun, but I haven't beat it up enough
to know if it's a real win.

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This is a wierd one, but 2.4 format falls all over itself if you have
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