[Mitch]

How much server did you crash?

I crash a server today by accident. It was a script error.

Proof: http://www.xfire.com/screenshots/mit...0544af543a.png

Total server crashes: 1

[tgkprog]

oh god in my 8 years software career i have crashed a fedex server (could not take the load the sysadmin said it could - so we had to cut back on simultaneous back end processes - meaning users had to wait 15-20 mins instead of 10 mins for some jobs to be done async.

Crashed a GE QA server (crashing Dev does not count ....) that was a pure programming bug - release without enough testing ...

a client tells me i crasehd his php server - disk space used up but that was cuase i was logging a lot - told him its for testing but he put it on the main site when the test fodler did ok .... too many logs created (text file not to database) - with no auto purge ....

[Dan]

I've only ever crashed a server ∞ times
I've crashed 1 of our schools servers about 4 or 5 times and I crash my own home on around 10 or more times a day. Apart from Sundays when I don't play around with the server at all!

[Smith6612]

I crash Garry's Mod servers as if the game was designed to crash with nukes and everything. However, web servers, I don't think I've crashed any so far. I've also crashed a select few Halo servers for going overboard on the rockets and grenades, but I don't know how I managed to crash it when I go overboard on rockets and grenades anyways.

[intertec]

I've never crashed any servers

[firesteel]

Production servers should never crash. Now with that being said, the truth is sometimes they do, regardless of architecture or OS. Well, I take that back, none of our big iron machines running Z/OS or OS/390 have ever crashed, at least in my years here. Anyway, critical non redundant hardware failures are most often the cause of server crashes in our Wintel and Lintel environment, as well as our mid-range systems running AIX and AS/400.

Our second leading cause of server crashes? Human error. Yup, fat fingering a command as root or administrator, pulling the wrong hot swap memory module, wrong redundant power supply, wrong CPU module, etc. Greatest crash I've ever witnessed? Someone who brought down a 4 server $250,000 clustered DB2 solution owned by one of our very high profile customers for several hours due to, get this, disconnecting and inadvertently damaging the pretty orange (and rather delicate) fiber gigabit cables because they were "in his way." The person was adding a simple $400 RAID card to a nearby server. He was shown the door shortly after . . .

Took 3 of us over 4 hours to get everything back up and clear the back log of data that was constantly queuing up for time on that cluster. Good times for sure.

BTW, buggy code is worked out on our Dev and Q/A servers before they ever hit production. tgkprog is right, those servers don't count as much as a prod box, since their lot in life is to be kicked around, prodded, and poked with sticks anyway.

[kkenny]

The students at our school hold deliberate DDoS our school days where we all go on computers and use the schools wifi and databases and everything to stress out everything in our schools datacenter.

I guess I could say at least 25 times via school.

[Smith6612]

Originally Posted by kkenny

The students at our school hold deliberate DDoS our school days where we all go on computers and use the schools wifi and databases and everything to stress out everything in our schools datacenter.

I guess I could say at least 25 times via school.

LOL that reminds me, my school used to always have issues with their internet. Well, it would work but it would get taken down and everything just by normal usage, and they had a T3. I guess over the summer they replaced it with a Time Warner Business line (cable modem?) and it works loads better, but the servers there are still slow and can't handle a class making connections at once to it and writing some small files to it.

[Zangetsu]

ive also never crashed a server but it would be funny to see other people's faces when it happens lol