Has he checked his logs to find the source of the crash? I had a web server that received moderate traffic that would crash for apparently no reason and at random times. The server was an AMD 900. after replacing the processor to an Intel, the server has been running without one incident. Check kernel logs to see if you are getting any kernel oops. The AMD problem for me caused all sorts of problems with fragged files and mysql corruption.
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 14:21, you wrote: > I have a colleague who has just gotten a PC > based on the ASUS A7V266-E motherboard and > an 80GB IBM IDE disk for fast numerical work. > He is running LM 8.2 without modifications. > The IDE disk is partitioned into ext3 and xfs > partitions. / and /usr are ext3 are ext3, > the rest are xfs. In addition he has mounted > file systems on two different computers (A and B) using NFS. > > He has 3 times consistently been able to crash the > OS resulting in a file corruption on the IDE disk. > > This happened 3 out of 3 times when he copied a 16Mb > file from the file system on computer A to the file > system on computer B by the program cp on the PC > running LM 8.2. It has every time been an ext3 or ext2 > file system that has been corrupted (maybe a coincidence). > > Ist this problem caused by > (a) the VIA chipset? > (b) the AMD processor? > (c) the UDMA setting? > (d) the IDE driver? > (e) the ext2/ext3 FS? > (f) the NFS system? > (g) or something else? > > We should appreciate very much if any of you > could give us any advice on how to proceed. > > We have the advantage that we know how to > produce the corruption? > > -- Bjarne Thomsen -- Brandon Long
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