FYI y,all Don -----Original Message----- From: Brian Leverich Date: Sunday, April 05, 1998 8:49 PM Subject: 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 > >