Wrest;led with this problem......

[ScotsLass]

For months I wrestled with this problem and never ever got
an answer. I have a dell 2500 Poweredge server with Novell
4.11 installed. My system would keep abending almost every
night with absolutely no error message to tell me why.

It seemed that it went down around midnight and I finally
found out this is when the file compression takes over. I
turned off the file compression and it ran for a month with
no problem. Does the file compression also handle the
deleted files? What is the command to purge SYS? Where
can I find instructions on the above subjects. Perhaps,
someone know of a book that has all the commands and what
their function is. The book that I have "Using Netware 4.1"
is for the birds.

Ta.

 

[TheLad]

To purge a volume, go to a command prompt on a workstation, select the relevant drive, and type PURGE /ALL

If File Compression is crashing your server, you may have a hardware issue. Unfortunately it could be anything from memory to dodgy SCSI card at fault.

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[ScotsLass]

Purged Sys & vol1 and purged 78,420 files. I have
not even got to vol2 yet. I noticed that f:\queues
and g:\queues had a total of almost 34,000 files. Could
this be my problem in that it did not have enough room
to do the file compression? Thanks for your input.

 

[TheLad]

Depends on what error messages your server was reporting prior to the nightly crash - check the console log if it happens again.

I would say that the server starts whinging at around 10% diskspace remaining if there is an issue. The error on the console would relate to compression, you can't miss it if it is happening.

Remember, print jobs are stored in the queues directory prior to printing so it is not uncommon to see a lot of files purged from that directory.

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