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MattSpeller

It's hard to tell but do you have SAR reports on that box? If so, check them. They often show what has happened in a case like this.

what are SAR reports & how would I find / enable / investigate?

scottalanmiller

@MattSpeller said:

what are SAR reports & how would I find / enable / investigate?

Log in through SSH and run....

sar

Maybe you will get lucky and see some info.

scottalanmiller

@MattSpeller said:

@scottalanmiller said:

The logging system crashed.

You were hacked.

Thrashing / OOM.

Disk is full.

that's part of it, certainly

possible, though I can think of more profitable things to do with one's hacking talents

it's possible, it did run out of memory once before but a patch solved it

disk is confirmed not full, but good call.

Were I a betting man, I'd point towards some kind of error crashing it's higher functions but leaving disk shares intact. It seems to "crash" about 30 minutes before it ceases to serve files.

If I had to put money on it, memory leak leading to thrashing is my guess. I've seen this a lot, it's not that uncommon.

You can do a....

watch free -m

And that will give you some insight too.

scottalanmiller

Preparing to do some Redis cluster failovers.

@MattSpeller said:

2nd crash in 2 days on our DS412+ Synology NAS - I'm rapidly becoming unhappy with this hardware.

The software on those things actually runs off the storage drives rather than a flash memory so if the hard drives are having any issues it could cause it.

scottalanmiller

Not a design feature that I favour. When making an appliance like that it's much nicer to see the OS on a flash drive (SD card or whatever.)

Joy

Good morning to all.

nadnerB

Morning @Joy

scottalanmiller

@Joy said:

Good morning to all.

I see that your avatar is working again!

Joy

@nadnerB said:

Morning @Joy

rainy morning again here

Joy

@scottalanmiller said:

@Joy said:

Good morning to all.

I see that your avatar is working again!

Lols yeah it was hehe

scottalanmiller

Sitting in an evening meeting. Getting pretty tired here. Been going for twenty hours thus far.

Reid Cooper

Good morning Joy. Nice to see your face again.

Joy

trying to figure out how To Change the Default User Profile Location of New User Accounts
on windows 8

scottalanmiller

@Joy said:

trying to figure out how To Change the Default User Profile Location of New User Accounts
on windows 8

http://www.windows-iso.com/how-to-change-user-profile-location-in-windows-8-without-registry-hack/

Joy

@scottalanmiller said:

@Joy said:

trying to figure out how To Change the Default User Profile Location of New User Accounts
on windows 8

http://www.windows-iso.com/how-to-change-user-profile-location-in-windows-8-without-registry-hack/

Thanks

Engin00b

Trying to figure out how to change my profile picture here. It seems to be stuck on Gravatar.

mlnews

@Engin00b said:

Trying to figure out how to change my profile picture here. It seems to be stuck on Gravatar.

Yes, Gravatar is the only way to set your avatar here.

And welcome to the community, by the way!

scottalanmiller

Welcome! Great to see you here.

Engin00b

Thanks!

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