Every night during the week my server crashes regularly between 5 pm and 6 pm (ie. quitting time). On the weekend, no one is logged in and the server does not crash. On occasion, the server has quit in the middle of the day, typically a Friday. Once it has quit for the day, it will be fine until the next evening.
I am not recovering files. I always pull from the latest backup.
When the server crashes, I have been watching the Activity Monitor. The “fmserverd” process will go away but the other two FM process will remain. To “restart” the server, I have been replacing the crashed files with my backups and started the Admin app. The “fmserverd” will startup and works fine for another 24 hours typically.
Does anyone have any ideas on what could be causing this? I have tried all of the standard debugging techniques to find the source of this problem but have not been successful.
Specs:
-Mac OS X Server 10.4.4 with XRAID 3 gigs of RAM, gigabit Ethernet, data on raid backup to system drive every 20 minutes, crashes have no relationship to backups
-Clients: cross platform all running FM8v2 and also running FM6 to access another FM Server.
-Latest version of FM Server and web engine, hosting 24 files some over 2 gigs, 60 max users, only custom web publishing using FX/PHP
-FM files: half of the files are mutli-table built from scratch in FM8, data imported from FM6 and merge files. One file has over 900,000 records. Other half of files, all small, converted from FM6.