yup. it is coincidence. Server #1 had a head crash - the head actually
detached and scraped the surface of the disk beyond repair.
Server #2 is behaving oddly, but not a hardware failure. Have not
gotten to the bottom of it.
On Nov 6, 2008, at 1:59 PM, Kent Swisher wrote:
Roland
We have a few tafs that will return 2000+ rows if you put in the
wrong search arguments. Chokes the server for up to 20 seconds, but
never caused a crash. I think your problem was just coincidence.
-> Kent
On 11/6/2008 1:42 PM, Rick Sanders wrote:
How did the hard drive fail? Is it the file system, or the computer
won't
boot up?
Sounds to me like the constant writing to the HD corrupted the file
system.
I don't think it's mechanical.
Rick Sanders
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-----Original Message-----
From: Roland Dumas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November-06-08
3:46 PM
To: WiTango List List
Subject: Witango-Talk: coincidence?
My dev server melted down. coincidentally, I had a taf that
returned a foundset with 1000 records. A mistake, but it would
choke the http server. I was in the process of fixing that taf
when my server just died. Hard drive failure. It seemed like a
coincidence. No way that a too-big foundset could corrupt a hard
drive, right?
I moved the files to another server. I fixed the taf to make sure
it only retrieved 75 records at a time. (<@ARG number> = 75)
Another person kept restoring the old taf, though. It crapped out
the http server. Then a hard drive failure.
Is it possible that a taf that returns too big a data set could
crap out the hard drive? Coincidence?
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