What exactly do you mean by dying? can you log in via console or is that totally hung? Im assuming ssh/telnet access from a terminal is also totally hung? Try turning off DMA on all your disk drives. It craps out performance a bit, but if you have/had multiple ide devices and one of them doesn't like DMA it can make your machine just hang. Wayner >>> kalin@xxxxxx 08/09/04 11:52am >>> hi all.. i posted this question a few months back here and the only answer i got was to update the kernel which i did but it didn't solve the problem.. i have a redhat 9 machine that dies randomly. sometimes after a day, sometimes after 8 days. there isn't any indication of a problem in any of the logs. all the machine runs is qmail with spamd and some procmail and a bind name server. it also has a helix real media server but that was added a few weeks ago. there is a web server with webmail interface - squirrelmail - too. that's all. non of the logs show anything. there is enough disk space. i did a memory test which came out fine. now having said that i heed to mention that a few weeks ago the machine had a second drive on which the main swap partition was living. that drive died and i had to create a swap file under /var on the main disk. i thought this will solve the problem but apparently it's not. the machine is monitored 24 hours but sometimes people notice that the mail is down before the techs - just a minute or so after the machine dies. and rebooting it all the time is not solving the issue. of course i can rebuild the machine but it be nice to know what the problem might be.. can somebody provide some advice of where to start looking for a problem. i'd appreciate it. also is there a way to find out what was the cpu load or memory usage at the time of the crash? thank you... -- Software is like sex: It's better when it's free. (Linus Torvalds) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
