Questions tagged [physical-environment]

This tag is appropriate for questions dealing with the physical environment of a system/deployment (e.g. dust, vibration, etc.) with no better, more specific tag.

This tag is appropriate for questions dealing with the physical environment of a system/deployment. Examples include questions asking about "special" environments, like:

  • Substantial shock/vibration
  • High dust levels
  • High levels of EM interference
  • Extremely hot or cold temperatures, or wide temperature swings
  • Extremely humid areas

If a more specific tag exists, please use that instead.

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How to safely raise server room humidity

We've just completed an office move and had no time after the construction of the office to run any sort of environment testing on the new server room. The server room is a good size and the temperature is okay but my issue is that the air is too…
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Can I safely use a 1U server with an actively cooled Nvidia GTX 680 video card?

I'm about to configure some new GPU capable nodes for our needs and I was wondering if someone has any experience with using simple video cards like Nvidia GTX 680 (actively cooled with a fan) in a 1U server? The fan would be pretty close to the…
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cacti : Terminology about ups, room temperature etc

We use cacti for graphing lots of metrics : Windows server related metrics go under a branch called "windows". Unix, Linux and storage metrics go under a branch called "Unix". Switch, firewalls, routers and load balancers related metrics go under a…
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CPU Cooling with Heatsinks

I've constructed a server that uses 2 Xeon E5-2620 CPUs and per Intel's recommendation I'm in the process of ordering heatsinks for each and I'm slightly concerned about thermal management. The case I'm using is well ventilated (the Coolermaster…
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What factors affect the noise level of a server?

I have a Dell PowerEdge 1950 rackmount server. It hosts an important SQL database, and in the past month or so, it has become very loud, which is irritating and distracting me. I ran some basic tests through Windows to check resource utilization…
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Why is it that highend servers fail more often than heavily used workstations?

It just something i noticed here at work. We all use our workstations heavily troughout the day for years and we almost never run into problems. But our various dedicated servers go from bad to worse and fail more and more. I understand servers do…
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Network Server Cabinets - How does the ventilation work?

Recently I've been looking at a range of network server cabinets with a mesh door at the rear. At the top of the cabinet are ceiling mounted fans with dust filters attached. These fans suck air out of the cabinet - presumably to remove the hot air…
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How many hours of use before I need to clean a tape drive?

I do backups to a HP Ultrium 2 tape drive (HP StorageWorks Ultrium 448). The drive has a 'Clean' LED that supposedly will light up or blink when the drive needs to be cleaned. The drive has been in use since october 2005, and still the 'Clean' light…
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Cooled server cabinet VS server room

The cooled server cabinet was discussed here before but I found my question is a little bit different. We have a client with some servers running into incredible bad conditions. The servers are in the middle of the office and cooled by a regular…
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Rackmount temperature/humidity control

This may seem like a strange question because it involves a non-traditional approach. What I'm looking for is a standard rackmount cooling/humidity control module. The idea is to build a portable server rack (in a case) that can be deployed to the…
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Using grep/regex to get array of temperatures

I'm trying to setup some basic temperature monitoring on my server - (without using third-party tools). I've installed a couple of libraries on my linux box to get sensors working on my server, and now I can use the sensors command which might…
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lm_sensors reports wrong temperature on Supermicro X8DT3?

Here's my system info: System Information Manufacturer: Supermicro Product Name: X8DT3 Version: 1234567890 Serial Number: 1234567890 UUID: 3EFC338F-2038-F257-3B5E-0025902BF938 Wake-up Type: Power Switch SKU Number: To Be…
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How to mount server into a rack - rails?

I am setting up a "server closet". I have not worked with server racks before. I got a server rack free on Craigslist. I am not sure how many "U" it is - it's about 6 feet tall. I bought two 4U cases and moved my hardware into them. Now I need to…
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Feasibility of servers running on one side?

This question is specifically about Sun X4100, but general information about all servers would be helpful. This is a 1 rack unit server, and these would typically be placed into a rack with the top facing up, front forward, in the common and…
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linux kernel 3.0.0 i7 CPU overheats and locks up

The server with i7 CPU (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz) under linux kernel 3.0.0 (3.0.0-10-server) generally works properly, but when it is put under heavy load - it overheats (as shown by "sensors" program) and locks up (with bunch "CPU…