On 02-Sep-08 11:25:23, MJ Ray wrote:
Heck, at least it killed things (thanks to timeo, soft, intr and some other options). Most of the NFS problems on campus servers used to make processes hang in an unkillable D (waiting for disk I/O) state and the load averages rise to something astronomical.
Reminds me of a time back in the 80s when I was (amateur) sysadmin for a little Unix machine in the Cambridge Pure Maths Dept. There were about 25 serial cables running off to different offices.
Came in one morning, machine frozen solid. Rebooted, got a message "device full". Poked around, found a huge log-file. Deleted that, and it was running again. But the log-file was building up ...
Tracked it down to one of the serial cables. The guy whose office it went to had it running close to some equipment, and the poor computer had spent all night trying to log-in the mains hum. And recording its failures ... on a 10MB hard drive.
Those were the days ... Ted.
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