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> From: Art Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: David Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Phantom: long term considerations
> Date: 27 Jan 2003 08:58:36 -0800
> 
> whats the uptime over the weekend?
> 
> Yeah we need to have an officers meeting here to
> figure out all this stuff, and I still want to puch
> the install fest off one week. (Personal Reasons)
> 
> Art
> 
> --- David Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Art/Byron:
> > 
> > This new phantom box has some problems. Last time it
> > crashed there was
> > nothing in the logs to indicate why. That leads me
> > to believe that it was
> > a hardware problem. Anything else and we would have
> > seen some hints
> > leading up to it. This is a problem. Here are some
> > solutions:
> > 
> > Very Short term:
> > 
> > The first time it crashed, Phantom had been up for
> > just over 1 day. This
> > time it crashed after 1.5 days. Perhaps we should
> > setup a 12-hour cron job
> > to reboot the thing regularly.
> > 
> > Short term:
> > 
> > Find a new home for the box where we can have
> > quicker/easier access to it
> > for rebooting/diagnosing the problem. I've talked to
> > Andrew Jorgensen and
> > he thinks that he might (a big might) be able to get
> > us space in Jake's
> > old office (above the pendulum) if we provide a
> > switch. Additionally, he
> > might (a bigger might) be able to get us a key to
> > the room. Also, we have
> > contact in the Chemistry dept with Michael Torrie. I
> > think now that we
> > have "pruned" the older breed of UUG, we might be
> > able to approach the CS
> > department about it, which I think would be superior
> > to the other two
> > routes. Also, Dan Johnson has just been promoted and
> > replaced by a newer
> > fellow from Sun. This new guy might be a good point
> > of contact (he's my
> > boss's boss). Chew on those ideas and let me know
> > what you think.
> > 
> > Long term:
> > 
> > We've got to find the offending hardware (if it is
> > indeed a hardware
> > problem) and replace it. I'm thinking of the usual
> > suspects: power supply
> > or RAM. Could we get our hands on some diagnostics
> > tools and check those
> > things out?
> > 
> > Sorry to bug you guys on a Saturday night. Man, this
> > week has been quite
> > buggy. :)
> > 
> > --Dave
> > 
> > 
> 
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