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Cotes, Steven wrote: > > > ---------- > > From: Gary Feinstein[SMTP:gfeinste@planethollywood.com] > > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 1998 7:28 AM > > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > > Subject: Re: Upgrade Options > > > <snip> > > > GULP! I just recently had a user with a runaway job that ate up > > almost > > all of my existing disk space. When I left work that day, I was at > > 86%. My system paged me in the middle of the night warning me that we > > were at almost 98%! Whew...good thing I was able to dial in and do an > > endjob in time. I thought everyone would like a good horror story! > > :-) > > Gary > > +--- > > > Gary, > Always scary. > What's worse is having a system hit 100%. > Did it once, never want to again. > > You may want to look at using DST to set your alarm level a little > lower. > Don't remember what the default is, we have ours set to 90%. > > -Steve Cotes > +--- > | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com". > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com > +--- We did it twice - once with a query written to an outfile - disk went from 80% - 100% in about twenty minutes! We didn't figure it out until after the system came back up and a DSPOBJD revealed a huge file created by a query! +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com". | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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