[2237] in Athena Bugs
Re: the amazing disappearing /afs!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Sun May 14 16:19:49 1989
Date: Sun, 14 May 89 16:19:03 EDT
From: Bill Sommerfeld <wesommer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, jis@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Jonathan I. Kamens's message of Sun, 14 May 89 13:40:50 EDT,
Jon,
It's not brain damage; it's an admission of humility on their part.
They're not sure that the servers don't have long-term resource leaks,
so they restart them once a week, at a time when most rational people
are asleep, just to make sure.
The best way to avoid the problem is to be asleep at 4AM on sundays; I
hope that's not too difficult (I'm sure the medical center could
arrange for sleeping pills or other such things if it's a case of
insomnia).
How long did you wait before giving up and rebooting?
- Bill
