On Monday, September 26, 2011 12:36:19 PM m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> a) have you checked
> /var/log/message for memory or drive errors?
Looked through the logs, there's *nothing* I can find that's out of sorts. When
the IO problem happens, nothing can be written.
> Maybe memtest86?
I replaced all the RAM from working/non-working machines. In several cases
where replacing RAM resolved the issue, memtest didn't indicate any problems,
so I'm not inclined to trust it.
> b) diffed
> dmesg between working and dying machines?
Other than the IRQ difference noted earlier, visual scan revealed no differences
involving mpt2.
>
> One more thing: should we assume you were trying to do things, when they
> die, from the console? I ask because I note that you're using the e1000e
> driver, which was just the subject of a thread here.
I'm familiar with the stale EL6 e1000e driver. I've been using one included by
yum from elrepo. Manually downloaded RPM so that ethernet works before doing a
yum -y update. I've been assuming this was unrelated.
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