Mike McCarty wrote:
Dougie Nisbet wrote:
Um, if the current release is the problem, then it will never run stably
I thought you said it has been running without a change for some time.
I quote your exact words:
A server which has been running steadily for years is beginning to
reboot. To the best of my knowledge, nothing has changed. It is a
dual-processor PIII. It runs stable.
Therefore, my dear Watson, logically, the problem is not the load,
since that has not changed. Furthermore, the symptoms sound more like
hardware, anyway.
I'm confused. I'm not suggesting it is load. And yes, the symptoms do
sound like hardware. But the timeline for this machine is interesting. I
had a problem with it crashing when I upgraded from 2.4 to 2.6.4 about
two years ago. I couldn't track it down so I reverted to 2.4. A few
months later I upgraded it 2.6.8 and that has run stably for well for a
year.
Now it starts playing up. And nothing has changed in the OS. So
everything points at hardware.
again. More to the point, it's easy to test. It's already rebooted twice
If you want to argue, go to someone else. If you want expert
advice, then listen.
I'll put it another way. I won't have time to physically spend time on
this box doing the sort of things you suggested for a few days. I think
hardware is far more likely to be a the problem than the kernel version.
But a hunch is a hunch, and I'm entitled to explore it. It costs me 20
seconds to rerun lilo and boot of a different kernel. With the box
rebooting several times a day it should eliminate the kernel from the
enquiries PDQ. That way, I'll have eliminated the impossible, and can
explore the improbable.
I'm not going to try to fix a machine
which has a bunch of fiddling going on in the background.
Fair enough. But with an attitude like that I'll happily live without
your advice. Which is a shame, because what you said in your original
post was useful.
Dougie
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