[42834] in Hotline Meeting
Multiple server outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Apr 13 22:40:25 1998
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: cfyi@MIT.EDU
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU, ops@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 22:40:19 EDT
So, since I haven't seen any mail, I figured I'd let anyone who missed
it know what happened. Around 10-15 different servers (including
hesiod, license, discuss, and install servers) hung at various points
this afternoon.
There is a bug in Several versions of Solaris that causes a machine to
hang after it has been up for 2^31 clock ticks (which takes
approximately 248 days and 13 hours.) You may recall that there was a
severaly hour long power outage affecting most of cambridge late last
summer. By now you may have guessed that that occured 248 days ago.
We are working on getting a patch.
Jonathon
