On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 16:59 +1000, Res wrote:
>> I have a problem with a CentOS 4 and now updated to 4.1 server,
>> every so often the other servers try to contact it and this not there a
>> retry and it is, like it goes to sleep, I have no problem with the
>> fedora1, RH9 and slackware machines they just never do this.
> I haven't seen this issue ... but it might actually be sleeping.
>
> CentOS-4 uses a 2.6.9-x kernel that is much better at doing what your
> BIOS says for power saving mode than 2.4 kernels were. I would first
> check the sleep settings in the BIOS of the problem machine.
>
> If that doesn't work, you try turning off the apmd and acpid services.
that unfortunately means teh system wont do a real poweroff if the UPS
instructs it to.
dropped down to 2.4.31 kernel and the problem seems to have gone away
so I think your right, its the 2.6.x kernel doing what it should,
regrettably we dont want it to :)
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Cheers
Res
