-----Forwarded Message----- > 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 > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com
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