Scary crash

[stanley]

I'm running FM Server on 8.6, and my client machine (my own laptop) is running OSX 10.1.2; I was exporting a 400MB database from the server onto my laptop when I ran out of disk space. I got the "out of space, trying to find space in the file" error and I cancelled via command-period. However, FMPro on my laptop hung (or it was proceeding very very slowly) so I performed a force-quit on it. The server is right next to me, and the first thing that happened was the server shut down - we've got an auto-reboot dongle on the server, so maybe FMServer just crashed, but nevertheless, it is a bit worrying to me that a client machine can force-quit and the result can be that the server crashes.

Has anyone had similar experience? If so, what OS was the client machine on? I'm hoping this has something to do with the facts that:

A. my laptop is running osx (no other machine here does.)

B. I was exporting a database at the time (extremely uncommon.)

Thanks

Stanley

[Kurt Knippel]

Well first of all it could simply be that the server hung, not crashed. Those auto-restart dongles (Kick-Off?) will respond to a hung server, not only a crash. If they do not get a response in a given time frame, they will restart the machine. It is possible that the server just hung waiting for some response from the client machine.