Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!decwrl!ucbvax!THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM!nsb From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Lost some mail (2) Message-ID: Date: 14 Aug 90 12:42:42 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 11 So much for experiments. Shortly after that experiment, my modem connection died while I was composing mail. I reconnected and, lo and behold, though my processes had all died, my mail-in-composition had been checkpointed. So it isn't as simple as being totally broken, but it doesn't seem to be checkpointing as often as it ought to. Maybe it's only checkpointing on something like a HUP signal, instead of the timer events it is supposed to use? At any rate, I don't think that the "Checkpointing messageserver state..." messages are also indicating a checkpoint of mail in progress, though they are supposed to...