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Title:USG buildhelp questions/answers
Moderator:SMURF::FILTER
Created:Mon Apr 26 1993
Last Modified:Mon Jan 20 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2763
Total number of notes:5802

23.0. "buffer and rcs pools" by SMURF::FILTER () Mon May 10 1993 12:35

Date Of Receipt: 	10-MAY-1993 09:24:34.08
From: 	20163::"[email protected]" "Steve Beikman USG/Release Eng"
To: 	[email protected]
CC: 	[email protected]
Subj: 	buffer and rcs pools

	a condition on buffer has been discovered which, left
	unattended, could cause the submits disk to loose submits.
	The loss of a submit on the submits disk would mean that
	the lost submit probably would not make it onto the build 
	disk.  

	The  rcs pools  have been locked.  We will be taking the 
	system down shortly to correct the problems.  I expect
	to have to move some filesystems.  This action will 
	probably take some time.    My initial guess will be
	around 2.5 hours.   


	for those of you who may not be aware, buffer is the 
	DECstation 5000/240 which hold the rcs pools and submits
	disks for all DEC OSF/1 streams.    

	/sb

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Date Of Receipt: 	10-MAY-1993 14:02:54.95
From: 	MINSRV::"[email protected]" "Joshua M. Friedman ULTRIX SDE"
To: 	[email protected]
CC: 	[email protected]
Subj: 	Question re: buffer and rcs pools

Sanity Check for Problems?....

If anyone has experienced any error at all with a submit recently
(within the last couple of days), please report it to [email protected]
or [email protected], and we'll check to insure that there's not an 
incomplete submission in the pool.  The primary submit disk that holds the
agosmaint, agosminor, agxmaint, agxminor, and agoshw pools has just
reached full capacity, and is in the process of being expanded (attached).

thanks very much.  hopefully we won't need to hear from you!    -josh

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	a condition on buffer has been discovered which, left
	unattended, could cause the submits disk to loose submits.
	The loss of a submit on the submits disk would mean that
	the lost submit probably would not make it onto the build 
	disk.  

	The  rcs pools  have been locked.  We will be taking the 
	system down shortly to correct the problems.  I expect
	to have to move some filesystems.  This action will 
	probably take some time.    My initial guess will be
	around 2.5 hours.   


	for those of you who may not be aware, buffer is the 
	DECstation 5000/240 which hold the rcs pools and submits
	disks for all DEC OSF/1 streams.    

	/sb

    
23.2bufferSMURF::FILTERAutomatic Posting Software - mail to flume::puckThu May 05 1994 11:2819
Date Of Receipt: 	 5-MAY-1994 09:51:12.23
From: 	YUCKY::beikman "Steve Beikman USG/REng  05-May-1994 0949"
To: 	usg_zk@DEC:.zko.yucky, odehelp@DEC:.zko.yucky
CC: 	
Subj: 	buffer

	buffer got wedged again this morning.   we're not yet sure why.
	
	Most of the filesystems have been checked, so the system should 
	be back up within the hour.    

	FYI, we (release engineering folks)  will fix this pain within
	the next few days.    The fix will potentially split buffer's 
	activities between two machines, one for direct rcs pool 
	related activities and  the other to host the submit trees. 
	We'll send more on this in the next few days. 

	/sb

23.3bufferSMURF::FILTERAutomatic Posting Software - mail to flume::puckWed Aug 10 1994 21:5120
Date Of Receipt: 	 8-AUG-1994 14:40:33.61
From: 	YUCKY::beikman "Steve Beikman  08-Aug-1994 1437"
To: 	osf_developers@DEC:.zko.yucky
CC: 	odehelp@DEC:.zko.yucky
Subj: 	buffer

	buffer took a dive again.   buffer is checking the filesystems
	now, it should return to service within the hour.


	Just think, in about a week, we'll be moving the big filesystems
	off of buffer and onto a secret. 

	secret, a DEC3000 M800 with 256M of memory, presto, RZ2{6|8} drives,
	and other goodies,  will enjoy reliably serving the submit trees to 
	your systems. 


	/sb

23.4bufferSMURF::FILTERAutomatic Posting Software - mail to flume::puckWed Aug 10 1994 22:0210
Date Of Receipt: 	 9-AUG-1994 08:57:05.59
From: 	FLAMBE::russell "Russ Laliberte USG  09-Aug-1994 0851"
To: 	osf_developers@DEC:.zko.flambe
CC: 	odehelp@DEC:.zko.flambe
Subj: 	buffer

	buffer went down again, it is rebooting and should be back up shortly...

	Russ