An update, the server crashed Friday night. They rebooted it Saturday morning. It crashed again Saturday night, and they rebooted it Sunday morning. On Monday they are going to add in a third hard drive to handle all the log files, to see if that helps.

Intriguingly, MailEnable (the only other application on this server) reported errors during the crash time period. It says -

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21 Jan 2007 00:07:05 MailEnable MailEnable Database Provider error: 0,FAILURE: (SELECT ID,Mode,AddressMask,Status,Account,AccessRight FROM SMTP_ACCESS WHERE ((Mode = 1) AND ((AddressMask = '64.*.*.*') OR (AddressMask = '64.74.*.*') OR (AddressMask = '64.74.173.*') OR (AddressMask = '64.74.173.203')) AND (AccessRight = 'CONNECT') AND ID > 0) ORDER BY ID LIMIT 1;), Module: MESMTPC.EXE; Error: [MySQL][ODBC 3.51 Driver][mysqld-4.1.16-nt]MySQL server has gone away

21 Jan 2007 08:33:55 MailEnable MailEnable Database Provider error: 0,FAILURE: (SELECT ID,Name,Status,Account FROM POSTOFFICE ORDER BY Name;), Module: MERADMS.exe; Error: [MySQL][ODBC 3.51 Driver][mysqld-4.1.16-nt]MySQL server has gone away

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So where did MySQL go? smile


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