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It was also the less stable. I discovered more than once the machine was completely frozen (blank screen, no keyboard or network response). Even a NMI couldn't
by m_eiman 15y ago
It was also the less stable. I discovered more than once the machine was
completely frozen (blank screen, no keyboard or network response). Even a NMI
couldn't change anything.
Sounds like a rather hard crash to me.
- seclorum 15y agoWere database transactions continuing while the terminal was non-responsive? Yes. Thus, its not really crashed.
- gaius 15y agoHmm. I remember back in the day, when the display driver could crash on an NT 3.51 box, but SQL Server would still be up. We treated that as a crash. A machine that was not responding on the network is getting its database transactions from where exactly? It's crashed, even if the disks are still spinning.
- einhverfr 15y agoNot a hard crash because the computer eventually would recover on its own as load lightens up. It's just a matter of interactive tasks not getting the priority you want them to have.