Lincoln Fessenden wrote:
> I have seen *some* similar activity in different machines through the
> years and it *always* turns out to be a hardware issue. If this machine
> is particularly old, I would be suspicious of that.
>
My version of it has been on both Dells and Supermicros (rebranded by
Penguin).
mark
>
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> Chris Olson wrote:
>> Our smallest network of systems has only four computers connected
>> via Gigabit Ethernet. The oldest and most stable platform is an eight
>> year old Dell E520 running CentOS 6.8. We often try out applications
>> on this Dell/CentOS machine before moving them to other systems on our
>> other networks.
>>
>> Last night, one of our users decided to create a single, 228GB home
>> directory tar archive on an empty, 500GB, external, USB, Ext4 disk
>> drive. This was obviously a poor decision. The extent of the results
>> were not obvious until this morning.
>>
>> All disk activity had stopped and the system appeared to be hibernation.
>> A push on the power button usually brings the system back to life, but
>> in this case, the unlock screen was presented for only three seconds
>> and then the hibernation mode was resumed. Repeated attempts to log
>> on were all thwarted due to this behavior. ssh from other systems
>> wasalso
>> not possible.
>>
>> Holding the power button in order to initiate power down did not work
>> either. The result was the same as a one second press of front panel
>> power button bringing up the unlock screen for only a short time. We
>> eventually removed the power cord for five minutes and then restarted
>> the machine.
> <snip>
>
> Not that this will be of any help, but we, once in a while, will suddenly
> find a machine unresponsive, and in an undefined state. IIRC, pingable,
> but can't ssh in, nor is there any response whatsoever to plugging in a
> keyboard and monitor. Power cycle is the only answer, and there's never
> anything in the logs.
>
> Mostly, those systems are used for very serious scientific computing (as
> in, no VM, and I've seen loads of > 80).
>
> mark
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