After a year of testing Domino 8, it still has bugs which prevent it from being used in production.
- Agent Manager crashes Domino
- HTTP agents which open a view and user closes the web page before the agent finishes, causes the agent never to end
The recently released 8.0.2FP1 caused a server to shutdown unexpectedly today.
- I'm still monitoring this behavior, and if it repeats, I need to upgrade to 8.5
Domino 8.5 has crashed several times on our AIX server, and only once it has even left a nsd file to diagnose, however all other versions have crashed on the AIX server too, and quite often even AIX itself crashes.
- However, on other servers (Windows 2003 32-bit), it has worked fine so far
- Also all other Domino versions crashed on the AIX server
- I got AIX 6.1 CDs now, so I will try if upgrading the AIX5L 5.3 version will cause less often crashes
- Domino 8.5 has also a bug which causes the compact commmand to increase the file size, instead of reducing it.
-- It could be that Domino 8.5 is unable to use design and document compression, this would explain the size increase, which can be fixed again by downgrading to Domino 8.0.2 and compacting there
Domino 7.0.3FP1 has crashed exactly at the same time every night.
- This is a known issue due that Tivoli+TDP+Remote Desktop doesn't work together, and the workaround is to run Remote Desktop with the /console option
- I'm monitoring now if this workaround causes less crashes, if not, then I will need to downgrade to 7.0.3
Domino 7.0.3 crashes sometimes, but it leaves a nsd behind, so the causes for the crashes have been workarounded.
- Most crashes were caused by other causes, like FTI corruption, harddisk failures, etc... Only a few cases remain where the cause of the crash was left unknown.
