On 12 11 2004 at 5:16 pm -0500, Steve Grammont wrote: >From my earlier stability problems Jerome said "When a crash occurs on >IDLE, there is no rebuild." That is the correct answer. Unfortunately, >that isn't my experience. And since this is happening regularly, that >indicates to me that something is not right with PowerMail even if I am >the only one experiencing this problem.
How do you know that PowerMail is idle (i.e., not writing to the database) at the time your system is going down? Maybe there is an electrical problem with a hard drive, such that PM begins to check mail, spins up disk, starts to write, loses power. Of course I am purely speculating. But if a file is left in an inconsistent state on disk, it will result in data loss or at least necessitate maintenance; since that is the symptom, we can induce that for SOME REASON the database is in use or otherwise inconsistent when your system dies. To give confidence in PowerMail's robustness, I just saved this message as I was typing it, then force-quit PowerMail point blank. I then restarted it, and up it came -- no database recovery or re-indexing required. Therefore, absent your observation of what the system is doing when it dies, I would tend to believe that disk activity may well be going on. -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
