On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 11:53:05PM +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:03:49 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> > Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> >> My Centos 5.2 box shuts itself down during a long tar -x. There is
> >> plenty of disk available. This is new; it worked in the past.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions?
> >
> > Are you dropping things on top of running programs (like tar itself) or
> > /proc or /sys?
>
> I hope not; I am putting the result in a data directory.
Has your machine got a bad CPU cooling fan? The work involved in bulk
operations like that might be causing it to overheat and perform a thermal
shutdown.... or simply crash. I had a Windows machine that would work
just fine, except one program would cause a crash after 10 minutes;
turns out it was stressing the CPU and causing overheating problems
'cos the CPU fan had died! Nothing else was causing enough workload to
cause the problem.
--
rgds
Stephen
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