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UNSCHEDULED DOWNTIME: APRIL 5 & 6, 1997
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Some time between about 9:00 PM EST on Saturday and about 3:00 AM EDT on
Sunday, something happened on our UNIX host (mail.bcpl.lib.md.us) that
filled all its swap space.  This caused most processes to either slow to a
crawl or refuse to run altogether.  The result, from the users' point of
view, it was almost impossible to make a PPP connection or log into your
UNIX shell account. If you were able to get a connection, you probably
weren't able to do much with it.

Before going to sleep Saturday night (early for a change) I left my Mac
logged in from home with some diagnostics running.  Something woke me up
at about 3:00 AM (the UNIX machine screaming for help?), and a look at
those diagnostics told me things were not right.  The UNIX machine
wouldn't respond to any commands, so I came into work to fix it.  I
couldn't even log in from the console, which is unusual, so I had to bring
the machine down and back up ungracefully with the power switch.
 
As I write this (4:00 AM EDT) everything seems to be okay.  Sorry about
the unexpected service interruption.

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