Mystery:  64-bit Linux Intelligent Servers behind the firewall crashes every 4 days.  Their counterparts outside the firewall is as stable as, hmm…gmail i guess.

“Hello techsupport, our server keep crashing and the users are screaming.”  Then TS responds with the usual “Send the DSSErrors logs, the webserver logs, the core dump, the os logs, the metadata, the warehouse…foget it just send the whole damn box!” … “beep, beep.  If you want to make a call please hang up and try again.”  Okay, I’m exaggerating a bit here, lol. Read more…

Intelligence Server, Linux crash, file descriptor, iserver

In general, I have seen that people have this perception that the number of rows received in a report is the only reason for memory errors in an I-sever.  It is not entirely true.  A report with 10,000 rows can have memory errors while a report with 1 million rows can execute fine.  Whats going on here? Read more…

Desktop, Intelligence Server data types, memory, memory error