Reminds me of a story from an old-timer friend of mine. This was back in the day of <shudder>text-based terminals</shudder>. The company he worked for had a military contract to install bunch of terminals in an office building at a local airbase. A few days after the workers moved in, his company got a call that something was wrong. About every few seconds, every terminal would get a string of random characters, each terminal getting a different string. After puzzling over the problem for a bit, he happened to look out the window and see the nearby radar dish sweep past the building at the same time the "odd" characters appeared. They checked a few random cables and found that the installers had used unshielded cables to save a few pennies. According to him, they spent the weekend wrapping the major cable bundles in foil as a stop-gap until they could come in and replace all the cables.
-----Original Message----- From: George Sexton [mailto:geor...@mhsoftware.com] Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 10:58 AM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: [OT] Tomcat dies suddenly > -----Original Message----- > From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] > Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 3:28 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: [OT] Tomcat dies suddenly > > Caldarale, Charles R wrote: > Since we must have by now exhausted all the normal causes of such > errors, maybe we should recommend > a) a visual inspection of the systems, to see if there are any pinsize > holes, or paint flaking off or so > b) the installation of a surveilance camera, to check if the SegFaults > are synchronous with any visible phenomenon (sparks, Cerenkow > radiation, > etc.) > c) moving the systems to the basement ? There's a story in a book I once read where a computer system crashed every morning around the same time. No one could figure it out. Finally, the head of IS goes down to the computer room at the expected time. In walks a maintenance man who comes in, opens the cabinet for the computer, and plugs a floor polisher into a spare outlet in the cabinet. When the maintenance man activates the polisher, boom, the system crashed. When asked by his boss what the problem was, he told him it was a buffer problem. http://www.amazon.com/Devouring-Fungus-Jennings-Karla/dp/0393307328 I used to have a Novell server that would mysteriously reboot every few days. In my case, the server was on the same circuit as a laser printer, and both were plugged into a Haworth cubicle outlet. Periodically, load was too much and it would causes a server reboot. We brought in another circuit NOT on the inadequate cubicle wiring system, and the problem went away. George Sexton MH Software, Inc. http://www.mhsoftware.com/ Voice: 303 438 9585 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org ******************************* NOTICE ********************************* This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply or by telephone (call us collect at 512-343-9100) and immediately delete this message and all its attachments.
