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>From: Robert Mullenax <address@hidden> >Organization: Universal Weather >Keywords: 200203202010.g2KKA6a26082 hardware Robert, >I was just curious. You said that you got a replacement machine for thelma. We ordered a replacement for thelma. Delivery is expected in 1.5 - 2 weeks. >What hardware did you get and OS Sun SPARC, Solaris. >and what will thelma be doing? Actually, thelma might stay in place. We (Mike and John, our sysadmins) did a couple of things to try and isolate the problem what was occurring: remove the gigabit ethernet card and remove 1 GB of RAM. After his was done early yesterday, we have been "wailing" on thelma to try and cause it to fail. So far, it is purring along nicely. We will leave thelma with its current configuration for several days (up to a week), and then try adding things back in one-by-one - assuming, of course that it is still running well. The first thing that will be done is to add back the 1 GB of RAM (to bring its RAM back to 4 GB). If that works well, we will turn disk mirroring back on. If that works correctly, we will feel pretty confident that the problem was being caused by the gigabit ethernet adapter. If all of this goes smoothly, we will continue to use thelma as a high volume IDD relay. Tom