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by einhverfr 5230 days ago
I don't know that the issues reported can be called "crashes." Rather it is locking up, probably because there are not enough resources reserved for the terminal and therefore the terminal becomes unresponsive while waiting for an opportunity to run.
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m_eiman 5230 days ago
It was also the less stable. I discovered more than once the machine was completely frozen (blank screen, no keyboard or network response). Even a NMI couldn't change anything.

Sounds like a rather hard crash to me.

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einhverfr 5229 days ago
Not a hard crash because the computer eventually would recover on its own as load lightens up. It's just a matter of interactive tasks not getting the priority you want them to have.
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seclorum 5230 days ago
Were database transactions continuing while the terminal was non-responsive? Yes. Thus, its not really crashed.
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gaius 5230 days ago
Hmm. I remember back in the day, when the display driver could crash on an NT 3.51 box, but SQL Server would still be up. We treated that as a crash.

A machine that was not responding on the network is getting its database transactions from where exactly? It's crashed, even if the disks are still spinning.

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