How Sun Microsystems coped with its high-end server flaw

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The main culprit involves cache memory By David P. Hamilton THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Nov. 8 B For the past year, Sun Microsystems Inc. has struggled to solve a mysterious fault

that can cause its high-end servers to crash unexpectedly, an embarrassing problem for a

computer maker that routinely refers to its servers as Brock solidB reliable. The Palo Alto,

Calif., company said the problem, which was eventually traced to a memory flaw, is rare and

probably affects fewer than 1% of all computers it has sold.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/487061.asp?cp1=1

-- Doris (reaper@pacifier.com), November 08, 2000


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