On 08/09/06, Dennis Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Casper Gasper wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for the help. Just to follow up, the problem was
> actually a hardware fault. The hard drive is flaky, but the box is so
> lightly loaded the weekly clamscan was the only thing that thrashed
> the disk. Testing with:
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null
>
> crashes the server even quicker.
Did the OS raise any alerts in the messages file on on the console?
No, nothing at all. When it locks, it's still slightly active (sends
synack packets, can type in username at the login prompt), but
anything that requires a disk access just hangs.
Casper.
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