[Info-vax] Current VMS engineering quality, was: Re: What's VMS up to these

[Keith Parris]

On 3/13/2012 4:22 PM, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> Keith Parris wrote:
>> This does not represent a bug or problem in the OS;
>
> This problem persisted since the days of VAX and BNC ethernet cabling
> and wasn't solved with Alpha's and TP cabling, so I agree
> it must be a feature, not a bug. Or maybe one should call it
> "bug by design"?
>
>> it is the appropriate reaction to a lengthy problem in the network.
>> VMS is doing exactly the right thing under the circumstances to
>> protect the data.
>
> Crashing an entire workstation cluster due to some network problem
> can hardly be called "the right thing".
> At least not of this cluster has to perform serious monitoring
> tasks and thus has to be "up" all the time.
> And certainly not when Unix boxen sharing data over the very same
> network have no such problems.

If length network outages are the norm and the OpenVMS cluster must 
tolerate them, it's simple to raise the RECNXINTERVAL parameter 
sufficiently to allow the cluster to ride through the outage.