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 DS> From: dsmith@mindspring.com (Don Smith)
 DS> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 00:46:52 GMT
 DS> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises

 DS> Ok, here's what happens. I have a 4.1 server running on a pentium
 DS> 133, with 32 megs of ram, Adaptec 2940 controller, Quantum 1 meg
 DS> drive, conner tape unit, plextor 4.5 cdrom. I am using BackupExec
 DS> 7.01a (I know 7.01b is out, but don't want to confuse things). 

 DS> If I ask for a tape backup in the night, then the next morning the
 DS> server will lock up sometime in the early morning, around 9 am or
 DS> so. If I power it down (which is the only way to talk to it), and
 DS> leave it off for 10 to 15 minutes, it will come back up and stay up
 DS> for days, until I run another tape backup. If I don't leave it off
 DS> for more than a minute, it will go down again. Has been known to go
 DS> down as many as 8 times, or as few as one.

Looks like the hardware, still I have to ask: applied all valid patches for
4.1? 

If yes, look at your L2-cache and try what happens if you disable it. Then
take a look at your busspeed and check your IRQ's. You already checked the
termination on your SCSI? Finally, the fan on the CPU is working? 

If these are all OK, do you have suballocation and compression enabled? It is
possible that space is at a premium and when the compression kicks in (default
at 00:00 I believe) it can overload the server when not properly configured.
32 Mb should be enough for the default 64k blocks on one 1Gb volume, but how
are your cachebuffers doing?

Don't forget, if you use a PC for a server, it's still a workstation. No
offense, but if you want a server, buy a server. They ARE more expensive than
the average PC-disguised-and-sold-as-a-server but it saves you a lot of
problems in the end. Like now.

Mazzel, Henk. 
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