Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/19

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Subject: [Leica] Server computer is in hospice
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Thu Feb 19 11:00:31 2009
References: <FBA81ECB3C343A14F86957A4@hindolveston.reid.org> <B3C8780F-B7D4-4A24-8754-06BADE9A5BC5@embarqmail.com> <4132C3E7-EA06-4953-99C2-3A67C4713927@mac.com> <D8B71214-D3D9-405A-8C03-37300D679C45@me.com>

> You must be one of the few people I know who can tell when a computer is 
> going to fail.

Server computers are manufactured with a large number of diagnostic 
measurements and probes in them. You can read out temperatures, fan speeds, 
voltages, disk hiccups, power supply spikes, and so on. I keep an eye on 
these things. Anybody who has worked in and around data centers can look at 
the probe profile for a server and tell that it's about to fail. You can 
sometimes prolong the life of a computer by a few days by forcefully cooling 
it to have an internal temperature of 15C, which is what 
I'm doing while I get the new one ready.

This is just the email computer, by the way. The gallery and contest 
computers are separate, and are in another building.


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