Re: Upgrade Options

[Jeff Carey <jeffreycarey@xxxxxxx>]

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
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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!
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