You should be able to recognize or monitor this by configure the syslog to print everything on a specific TTY or use the remote logging functionality. Kind regards Thomas Am Do., 23. Mai 2019 um 18:31 Uhr schrieb Jon Pruente < jpruente@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 10:02 AM mark <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > That seems unlikely. Foe one, I've seen that... but I *always* see > entries > > in the log about the oom-killer being invoked. For another, this isn't a > > compute node, it's *only* a fileserver, serving projects, home > > directories, and backups (home-grown b/u, uses rsync), and backups don't > > start until well after midnight, and as we're business-hours only, there > > was less usage, and it does have 256G RAM.... > > > > I have two servers that would lock up like this occasionally, and if I let > them sit at the console long enough sometimes they would give a login > prompt. It took a lot of time and frustration (these are prod servers) but > I tracked it down to a problem in the XFS driver, as it never occurred on > the systems with EXT4 filesystems. The XFS driver would hang, preventing > writes to the filesystem. I could identify exactly when that happened as > all system logging would suddenly stop at the same second. Then OOMKiller > would come in and start killing off processes but that wouldn't be in the > logs on disk because the file system couldn't write. I rolled the servers > back to a 5xx series kernel and the issue didn't resurface. I recently let > them boot the newer 9xx series kernels and I'm hoping the XFS issue is > fixed. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Linux ... enjoy the ride! _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos