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Originally Posted by compurandom
NFS is designed to handle this, and will hang the client until the server comes back.
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Yeah, it locks 'em up good and tight sometimes, doesn't it? I always thought this was due to a suboptimal design in NFS. It's interesting to hear it described as a design feature. I never thought of it that way.
The motherboard (and original power supply) in this computer are from the "capacitor plague" generation. I just replaced the power supply with a high end EVGA modular Platinum one, so that's good now. Still having the random shutdowns with the new one though, so evidently it was not the original power supply causing the problem. I'll keep it as an emergency spare, because it too was a high end model back in it's day. I'm thinking the mobo may have unceremoniously reached end of life. No bulging capacitors or magic smoke, but it is old. When's the last time you ran into a mobo that still uses DDR2 RAM??? Again, another "high end in it's day" component, but like a Ford Model T, it's day has long since passed.
It's good that you pointed out that things like flakey computers put the Calibre library/database at risk. Remote access over a network is not the only thing that can kill Calibre. Everyone should be reminded of this from time to time. I am aware of this, but not terribly concerned in my case - I have multiple redundant backups, and they are spread across three separate servers.