Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Wireshark-users Digest, Vol 58, Issue 10

From: "Don McKinnon-AST" <dmckinnon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:53:46 -0500
Title: Wireshark-users Digest, Vol 58, Issue 10
On Mar 10, 2011, at  15:22:06 , Larry Dieterich wrote:

>>> Does it seem unlikely that a problem related to EMF would only affect one software process on one computer?
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>> It might or might not.  Depends how strong the EMF is to the one computer it's crashing on; what's insulating the said computer, etc.  Remember the Inverse Square Law.  However, it does sound rather far-fetched without knowing more details.  Of course, if your Helix server is sitting in the same room as one of the Large Hadron Collider's superconducting magnets at CERN, then yes!  ;-)
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>The server computer has been moved to two different physical locations within the facility and there seems to be no change in the crashiness.
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>I think I'm about ready to rule out EMF as a possible cause.
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>Thanks for the other suggestions!
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>Larry


Sounds like a potential nasty power environment.  Does the server have proper AC power conditioning?
Has the server AC power been isolated (run off of UPS) and failures still seen?
 
Don