[Info-vax] Anti-virus ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-08-14, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 8/14/2023 8:39 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> Now, about Eisner. My comments are _not_ snide, but based on what has
>> been going on over the last few years.
>>
>> Every so often, Eisner's network services (including SSH) simply stop
>> working. Sometimes, basic stuff such as ICMP continues to work, but
>> anything involving process creation is utterly stuffed.
>>
>> The now-standard routine is that one of us users posts on the Eisner
>> mailing list that Eisner is stuffed again, at which point VSI reboots it.
>>
>> Eisner should be an absolutely golden opportunity for VSI to find issues
>> in a real world situation and then fix them in VMS so that VMS becomes
>> more robust for everyone. In Eisner, VSI is exposing to the real world
>> the operating system that VSI themselves are producing and selling.
>>
>> Instead, Eisner has been locking up in the same way for years, so either
>> VSI can't find the external causes that's resulting in it locking up, or
>> it finds an issue, fixes it, but then another way of locking up VMS
>> comes along.
>
> Eisner, last I heard, runs on an Alpha DS20.  Not a platform that VSI can spend 
> much or any time on.  x86 is their future, at this time.  So, yeah, I can 
> understand "just reboot the damn thing".
>

There's nothing here so far that even remotely suggests this is a hardware
issue.

Even ignoring that Alpha is a supported platform, discovering the root
cause is directly applicable to the behaviour of VMS on other architectures.

Simon.

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