Earlier this afternoon (Tuesday, 10 December 1996 at about 2pm) the interactive system (Sea) of the Digital OpenVMS cluster in Oxford (MiaVX1) was rebooted to recover from a severe slowdown. For the period of the slowdown (from approximately 1:15 or 1:30pm) and through the end of the reboot process, most if not all services on Sea would have been (or at least seemed, by virtue of slow-to-non-existent response) unavailable, including World Wide Web (WWW). The cause of the slowdown was an unintentional infinite loop in a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) program being written by an individual MiaVX1 user for deployment through his / her WWW pages. MCIS is currently exploring means of preventing occurrences of this and similar events. If you are unsure of a program you are attempting to develop or use may affect system resources, the right answer is always to contact the MCIS Help Desk (by electronic mail at [log in to unmask] or by telephone at 529-7900). Your question or concern will be referred to the appropriate resource staff for assistance. John -- Miami University John B Harlan Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS) Coordinator Miami Computing & Information Services (MCIS) Client Services 137 Hoyt Hall Oxford, Ohio 45056-1618 (513) 529-5330 voice (513) 529-5058 fax [log in to unmask] http://miavx1.muohio.edu/~harlanjb/