On 16 Dec 2010, at 07:17, Stefan Scheytt wrote: > Hello there monglers and mongelettes, > > There are some oddball machines here running on HP > server hardware with openSUSE 2.6.22 kernels that like > crashing randomly. My feeble attempts to switch them > over to a different, freshly built kernel with kexec/kdump > slappen on it have so far been in vain.. mainly because > the storage doesn't want to play ball. > > So,, if any gurus out there fancy some very good > money and a free all-expenses trip to Munich to wrestle > some of these beasts down... drop me a private e-mail > and I'll get you talking to The People.
Are you getting kernel dumps? Back in the 2.0.xx days we had issues with SCSI drivers that didn't multi-process properly but the crash dumps were very helpful. And as Jason said, test the hardware well. At least give them a good thrashing with memtest86.