> What exactly do you mean by dying? crashing.... stops any processing... > can you log in via console or is that > totally hung? Im assuming ssh/telnet access from a terminal is also > totally hung? i can not reach it via console/ssh - it has to be rebooted... > 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. ok. anything else besides these 2 of? CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA > > Wayner what about this: also is there a way to find out what was the cpu load or memory usage at the time of the crash? thanks. > >>>> 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 > -- 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
