Latest news from RootsWeb > Sorry not to have written this post sooner, but it's been one of > those weeks. > > > Our upstream accidentally dropped routes to our main list server's > T1 wire on Wednesday, and it took us about 7 hours to convince them > that the problem was on *their* end of the wire. After we came back > online, it took Karen another 6 hours or so to clear the queue. She > got to bed after 2am (I'd wimped out four hours earlier because I'd > been up the night before preparing for a business meeting ... ) > > > This morning *lots* of sites (notably AOL) went south at the > Daylight Savings Time transition, and The Net was fundamentally > hosed from 3am until about noon. I wound up having to teach our > mail server to cache host status information so we could at least > deliver mail to the sites that were still alive, and I'm still > working to clear the queue. > > > We've been having stability problems with our new search engine box. > It's the first pre-built server we've bought, and it turns out it > was shipped with a number of configuration problems. (It was > basically configured as a workstation rather than as a main server.) > > Last week we made a number of tunes that increased the mean time > between crashes out to a number of hours, then Friday we learned the > not-circulated-to-the-public fact that motherboard BIOSes for > Pentium Pro and Pentium II CPUs have to be configured to the > specific "stepping" (version) of the CPU. Since all our boxen use > flash BIOSes, I kinda sticky-fingered a Intel utility for > configuring the BIOS chips and ran it on the new search engine box. > > It's now been up for more than 40 hours operating with an artificial > load, so things look pretty promising. I think we'll have the new > search engine box in production this coming week. > > > So that's the news from RootsWeb. Cheers, B. > > > > -- > Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L > RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ > P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich@rootsweb.com >