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10-29-2002

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We moved a big call center system (a NCR unix server and a connected tele switch) into a new server room. After 2 weeks someone called from the sales staff complaning that the system didnt deliver any phone calls to the sale people using it (around 100 persons). We tried to acces the server and it did look OK then we checked the admin console on the big tele switch and it said that it couldnt connect to the switch cards in the cabinet so we went down to the server room.. .. mmmmm... mmm..

We had placed the tele switch directly under a cooling machine that was water driven (you can se were im going with this.. Smilie

).

we hade around 5-6 liter of water in the tele switch cabinet... we even had water in the power supply that was mounted in the cabinet with no shielding cover! Smilie

the funny thing was that the admin console card was still working despite the fact that 6 liters of water hade gone trough the power suply Smilie

im just glad we didnt get electricuted Smilie

VERY EXPENSIVE MISTAKE !!!!!! the swtich was around 200K $...

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cachefswssize(1M)					  System Administration Commands					 cachefswssize(1M)

NAME

       cachefswssize - determine working set size for cachefs

SYNOPSIS

       cachefswssize logfile

DESCRIPTION

       The  cachefswssize  command  displays  the  workspace size determined from logfile. This includes the amount of cache space needed for each
       filesystem that was mounted under the cache, as well as a total.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of cachefswssize when encountering files greater than or equal to 2  Gbyte	(  2 **31
       bytes).

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: A sample output of cachefswssize.

       example% cachefswssize /var/tmp/samlog

       /home/sam
				      end size: 	      10688k
			       high water size: 	      10704k

       /foo
				      end size: 		128k
			       high water size: 		128k

       /usr/dist
				      end size: 	       1472k
			       high water size: 	       1472k

       total for cache
				  initial size: 	     110960k
				      end size: 	      12288k
			       high water size: 	      12304k

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	       success

       non-zero        an error has occurred.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       cachefslog(1M), cachefsstat(1M), cfsadmin(1M), attributes(5), largefile(5)

DIAGNOSTICS

       problems were encountered writing log file

	   There were problems encountered when the kernel was writing the logfile.  The most common problem is running out of disk space.

       invalid log file

	   The logfile is not a valid logfile or was created with a newer version of Solaris than the one where cachefswssize is running.

SunOS 5.10							    16 Sep 1996 						 cachefswssize(1M)