Hi all, Any ideas, why is this happening or how to debug this? After random time (usually one to three days uptime) inode-sz reported by sar jumps way up its normal level and <24 hours after this bug has happened server will crash. Server used to work fine, but started to do this around beginning of June. --- 08:20:00 AM dentunusd file-sz %file-sz inode-sz super-sz %super-sz dquot-sz %dquot-sz rtsig-sz %rtsig-sz 08:30:00 AM 74716 335 0.32 28189 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 08:40:00 AM 76795 380 0.36 28383 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 08:50:00 AM 55700 370 0.35 10806 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 09:00:01 AM 18770 291 0.28 4294948543 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 09:10:00 AM 16385 291 0.28 4294947285 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 09:20:00 AM 982 275 0.26 4294939963 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 --- Disk activity stops in a very weird way: I can ... - create new files with commands like "echo test >test" and read them. - move around in directory structure. - use "df" and such commands. But ... - all kind of syslog activity freezes, no new stuff to /var/log/, although all the processes seem to run as usual. - Apache seems to serve pages it already has been serving, but trying to surf to the yet unvisited page, it will hang. - restarting any service via "/etc/rc.d/init.d/x restart" fails (will hang when service is stopping). Server is a dual P3 Xeon 700 MHz / 1 GB RAM / 200 GB (hardware) RAID-5 SCSI. Distribution used is a fresh Red Hat 7.3 install, updated with up2date whenever necessary. Kernel version: Linux xxx.xxxxxxxxx.xx 2.4.18-4smp #1 SMP Thu May 2 18:32:34 EDT 2002 i686 unknown Best regards, Janne Pikkarainen
