Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!sparky!mike
From: mike@sparky (Michael Scott)
Subject: CAP 5.0 Fileserver is flakey.  Any ideas?
Message-ID: <1991May10.184903.21275@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Summary: SS1+ running CAP 5.0 has flakey fileserver for large file transfers
Keywords: CAP, fileserver
Sender: Michael Scott (mike@sparky.uwaterloo.ca) 
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 10 May 1991 18:49:03 GMT
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Hi, I'm hoping somebody has run into this problem before.

System:
We've got a SS1+ with a 1.3 Gb HD and 600 Mb magneto-optical disk
running CAP 5.0 .  Our local ethernet has Mac II's (ci/x) with ether2
cards attached running appleshare and ethertalk1.  Our work involves
large disk transfers regularly (>50Mb).  

Problem:
Usually our net is very reliable, but occasionally (1-2 /week) after a
large disk transfer has just been completed, the fileserver shuts down
and dumps core(aufs) in the current directory.  The copied files have
always been fine, but it is a pain to reconnect to the server.
Also, the fileserver sometimes dies when in an application and scanning
directories in an open/close/save dialog box.

I've tried stripping DA's & startups from the Mac's but it doesn't seem
to help.  Besides, it appears as though the problem is at the Sparc end.

Any ideas?

Please respond directly via e-mail.  I will summarize if response warrants.

Thanks,


-- 
Michael J. Scott                       U of Waterloo Bioengineering Group
mike@sparky.uwaterloo.ca               'Embryos Are Us'

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