Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 09:54:32 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Taylor Dondich <thexder@lvcm.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My horror story Message-ID: <20020510095432.C5884@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <000701c1f804$47d5dc00$6401a8c0@penguin>; from thexder@lvcm.com on Fri, May 10, 2002 at 02:23:00AM -0700 References: <000701c1f804$47d5dc00$6401a8c0@penguin>
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On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 02:23:00AM -0700, Taylor Dondich wrote: > > The hard-drive took a serious hit. And the system was extremely old. It > held it's head high as it served internal DNS requests and pumped its arms > in fury as my web requests hit it as hard as it could. "Write caching" on the HD hardware contributes to that problem. > Also, I'm now looking into a Universal Power Supply solution. Is *Uninteruptable* Power Supply. > Something from APS, I feel. However, I don't know if the PowerChute > software they supply will work with FreeBSD. Anyone have any ideas or > comments? A UPS without being connected via "Power Chute" or similar is a 90% solution which would have saved your posterior in the situation you describe. There are utilities in ports for monitoring UPS health. I've never used one altho I have UPS's on most of my FreeBSD systems. And Macintosh. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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