Charles, I'm wondering if this is a screen saver module going mad? This would explain why pressing return fixes the problem. If the system has been set up to pick a random screen saver then the problem would be fairly unpredictable, ie only when that screen saver is chosen. Cheers, Alex.. -= Alex Dyas, DC Ops, PSINet Europe, Geneva, +41 22 783 6208 =- Charles wrote: > Dear all, > > Recently one of our servers randomly stop responding, but it does not hang. > > When the problem happens, all the network services stop responding, but > the server is still running. Then many processes are queued up and cause the > avg no. of process running sky to over 100 in 10min! If I was connecting an > ssh to the server, it just stop response but the connection is still there. > ping also has response. > > The most strange thing is, when I press an ENTER key at the console, the > problem solved instantly and everything back to normal. Even my ssh connection > will have response again. > > Our server's config: > > Hardware: Dual P3-700Mhz, 640M RAM, 2 x 10G IDE HDD running Software RAID-1 > OS: RedHat Linux 8.0 > kernel: kernel-2.4.18-14smp > > Special config: > - freeswan-1.99_x509_0.9.15_2.4.18_14 installed > > Do you know what happens and kindly give me any suggestions? Thanks! > > > Best Regards, > Charles > > ---------------------------------------- > My Inbox is protected by SPAMfighter > 7155 spam mails have been blocked so far. > Download free www.spamfighter.com today! -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
