Sorry, yeah, I guess I could call RedHat support, since we're paying them. :) It's just that I've always been so impressed with the knowlege and helpfulness of the folks here that I thought I'd give it a shot before turning somewhere else. I'll see if I can get my boss to allow me to update to the latest OS patches and BIOS to see if this will fix stuff. Ben Craig White wrote: >you are aware of the support resources available for RHEL and Oracle >right? There also is a nahant-list which is Red Hat's mail list for >RHEL-4 > >Just wanting to point out the perhaps more logical places to seek >assistance though I am sure that the CentOS team is flattered by your >asking for help on this list. > >Craig > >On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 08:16 -0600, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > >>Sorry, it's an HP/Compaq ML-530. It didn't do this until I changed the >>OS, so I doubt that it's a BIOS issue. >> >>Thanks! >> >>Leonard Isham wrote: >> >> >> >>>On 3/28/06, Benjamin J. Weiss <benjamin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Hey, y'all! :) >>>> >>>>I've got an RHEL-4 server (yep, I know it's not CentOS, but hey we gotta >>>>send some money RH's way to keep CentOS up and going! ) that's running >>>>Oracle 10g. This same hardware worked just fine for over a year running >>>>RHEL-AS-2.1 and Oracle 9i. Now we're getting spontaneous reboots when >>>>running oracle processes that eat up a bunch of resources. I don't know >>>>where to go from here. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>I didn't see a mention of the hardware type, but some systems have a >>>BIOS setting to reboot if the hardware doesn't detecet any "activity" >>>for a period of time. Check for that setting and disable that >>>feature. This may solve the issue. If not at least let you see the >>>crash if there is one. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>It's got dual hyper-threading processors set to hyperthreading mode, and >>>>I understand that the 2.6 kernel used to have HT issues, but I thought >>>>that'd been solved. The kernel we're running is: 2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp >>>>(yeah, not the latest, I haven't had a chance lately to test and update >>>>the patches). >>>> >>>>I think the kernel settings are correct, what with 4gigs of ram: >>>> >>>>[root@sibrsdbs etc]# cat sysctl.conf >>>># Kernel sysctl configuration file for Red Hat Linux >>>># >>>># For binary values, 0 is disabled, 1 is enabled. See sysctl(8) and >>>># sysctl.conf(5) for more details. >>>> >>>># Controls IP packet forwarding >>>>net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 >>>> >>>># Controls source route verification >>>>net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 >>>> >>>># Do not accept source routing >>>>net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0 >>>> >>>># Controls the System Request debugging functionality of the kernel >>>>kernel.sysrq = 0 >>>> >>>># Controls whether core dumps will append the PID to the core filename. >>>># Useful for debugging multi-threaded applications. >>>>kernel.core_uses_pid = 1 >>>> >>>># oracle settings >>>>kernel.shmall = 2097152 >>>>kernel.shmmax = 2147483648 >>>>kernel.shmmni = 4096 >>>>kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128 >>>>#fs.file-max = 65536 >>>>net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000 >>>>net.core.rmem_default=262144 >>>>net.core.wmem_default=262144 >>>>net.core.rmem_max=262144 >>>>net.core.wmem_max=262144 >>>> >>>> >>>>I don't know how to look for the core dump, if there was one. I don't >>>>see anything named 'core' in the /root directory. >>>> >>>>I'm sucking wind, any suggestions? >>>> >>>>Thanks! >>>> >>>>Ben >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>CentOS mailing list >>>>CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx >>>>http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>-- >>>Leonard Isham, CISSP >>>Ostendo non ostento. >>>_______________________________________________ >>>CentOS mailing list >>>CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx >>>http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>CentOS mailing list >>CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx >>http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > >