[ADMIN] Server troubles.

[Jon V.]

Hello everyone,

As you've all already noticed, we had some server troubles over the
weekend. The problems began on 2/11 at roughly three PM and reached
culmination at roughly 4:40PM, at which point mail stopped being
delivered.  

The exact cause of the problem is unknown, but is *tentatively* being
linked to a kernel memory leak. Logging stopped without any indicative
error messages at approximately 16:40. Several new programs had been
installed and were being tested earlier that day, but those were
user-level and should not have been able to crash the server.

The server will be taken down briefly tonight (2/14) at approximately
11:00PM for a kernel upgrade. At that time web/ftp/mail services will stop
for at least one half hour and not more than one hour. 

At this time, there are approx. 2500 messages in our outbound mail queue
awaiting delivery to individual recipients. This may cause the lists to be
somewhat slow today as the server catches up. 

Sorry for any inconveniance,
	Jon



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