Leslie Rhorer wrote:
Something very disturbing is happening now, however. Just a few minutes
after loading oprofile, the system did a sudden total shutdown. The
file
systems were all left dirty, and power was suddenly cut to the main
chassis.
This has never happened before. I rebooted the system, and the file
systems
replayed their journals. Some data was lost, of course, but nothing
serious. A few hours later, the exact same thing happened again: A
sudden
shut-down. Nothing like this has ever happened before. Of course the
system can issue a power shutdown from software, but it is supposed to
clean
up the file systems first, and it's not supposed to just do it
autonomously.
Just for grins, is this system by any chance on a UPS? Because I found
an interesting failure mode if that's the case.
Yeah, you bet. Indeed, the first thing I considered was a false Low Battery
indication causing the system to shut down, but in that case it should have
been a clean shut-down.
Actually what I saw was that the load exceeded the charge capacity, so
the battery gradually discharged, and at some point the UPS just shut
off (or the output voltage got so low the system crashed). The cause was
not too much load, but a failure of a diode in the charging circuit,
such that the full wave rectifier became a half wave rectifier, and in
addition to the other problems there was a lot of noise on the output
voltage.
Anyway, just a thought, if this falls over often I would take a chance
on losing power and run on just a surge protector for a little bit to
see if any UPS issue might be involved.
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CTO TMR Associates, Inc
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