[Imc-tech] Fwd: problems with Sergei and MoJo

[Brian Hagy]

huh.  i know Mojo's hard drive is pretty full, that could also be helping
to slow things down.  there has always been time delays when trying to
save files across the network, as well as locking up of both sergei and
mojo while transfers have been happening.  i've tracked the problem to
that.  it's not that either computer is particularly sick (though mojo's
drive is pretty full, and sergei's is creapin up there as well, which does
make a difference).

until sehvilla said something, there has been no reports of sergei locking
up.  make sure the fan on sergei is on and pointing into the computer (not
up to the table, which i've found it doing before).  as well, make sure
the heat vent is turned on in the production room (that in itself makes a
big difference, for some reason).  i'll check into sergei and mojo, to see
if there are other problems.  if it's the network, though, then that'll
have to be handled by someone else.

thanks for the report sehvilla, clear and understandable.  it helps us out
a lot.

brian



On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Clint Popetz wrote:

> I hadn't heard that Sergei was crashing too.  The "lock up and
> reboot automatically" of Mojo is the typical symptom of its disease,
> which we presume to be heat related.
>
> As far as one lock up freezing the other computer, perhaps we should
> not share drives between them, but rather have each use Dewey.  That
> would be my preference.
>
> 				-Clint
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Sehvilla Mann <smann at stu.parkland.cc.il.us> -----
>
> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 10:56:13 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Sehvilla Mann <smann at stu.parkland.cc.il.us>
> Subject: problems with Sergei and MoJo
> To: cpopetz at cpopetz.com
>
>
> Hi Clint,
>
>   Sascha suggested I email you about some problems I had last night with Mother
> Jones and Sergei. I had loaded a 1 1/2 hour long audio piece into the computer
> using SoundForge. When I tried to save my piece, the computer was acting very
> strangely. It gave me the hourglass "busy" icon for about three minutes before
> I went and asked Sascha if he knew what was going on. The computer wouldn't let
> me do anything in Soundforge, though it would let me do other things in the
> computer. As I remember, Sascha closed some programs and determined that my
> piece was being saved, albeit very slowly.
>   When it finally did save, I began to edit my piece. I didn't have any
> problems using Soundforge for that. But then I tried to save my changes and it
> started to do the super-slow-save thing again. I pressed Control-Alt-Delete
> once and checked to see if the program was running (the way Sascha had). It was
> running, so I sat around and waited for it to finish. Then, without warning,
> the whole computer shut down and rebooted! Sascha had left by then, and I had
> no idea what was going on. When the computer was back on, I searched the E
> drive for my file and it wasn't there.
>   My dad (a system administrator) came over to pick me up and tried to figure
> out what was wrong with the computer. He ended up deciding that the problem was
> with Sergei. I can't remember his exact words but I think what he said was that
> the drive I was using was networked, and Sergei was having problems, so when
> Sergei crashed that's why I couldn't get my file back. My dad and I went over
> and rebooted Sergei. As soon as it was up, my file came back to MoJo. Then
> Sergei crashed again within a minute and my file was again lost.
>   This morning as I was working on this computer, Sarah K was having problems
> with Sergei crashing. She mentioned that she wasn't running anything more than
> pine and Internet Explorer.
>   I'm not sure what's wrong with the computers but Sascha said that y'all were
> hoping people would let you know if we had problems with them.
>
>   Thanks.
>
>   Sehvilla
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