Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Server crash
Frå: Olav Øiehaug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Nordheim) Til: Ragnar Wisløff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dato: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:13:33 +0200 Torsdag 19. september 2002 22:55 skreiv Ragnar Wisløff: > Sitat Olav Øiehaug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Our school at Haroy in Norway have desided to use LTSP with > > RedHat > > > 7.3 > > We have a dual AMD 1800+ MSI-mainboard with 1GB Ram for the LTSP > > server. > > The users (/home) is on another server. We use NIS and NFS to > > connect the two > > servers. We have 18 ws. > > About 50 % of the clients have 100Mbit NIC, the rest have > > 10Mbit. > > > The LTSP server have SMC Gigabit NIC, and the other server > > (/home) > > > have > > 100Mbit. They are both connected to a SMC Gigabit switch. > > > > Everything works works OK, but the LTSP server crashes several > > times during a > > day. I have tried to disable Mozilla, and I have tried to > > disable > > > printing, > > but that did not help. I have made several copies of > > /var/log/messages, but I > > can not find anything significant. > > Is there no pattern to the crashes? Total Black out, no response either on clients nor server > If you leave the server alone, no clients attached, does it still > crash? Always when the students work at terminals. It seems to crash more often when heavy loaded > Do the activities of the users influence the crashes? No significant pattern, at least I have not found any > How does the sever crash? Turn itself off or just refuse to > respond? Can you still log in to a console or via ssh? see above. > If it's a hardware problem, you could start looking at the RAM. > Dual Athlons should have registered memory, I think. Is that what > you have installed? I know these things are expensive, but id at > all possible try to get hold another set of RAM chips and swap > out the one you've put in. Yes Reg there is. I have ordered another 512 MB, maybe I will swap with this. > What about disks? Any partitions full? No, lot of space. > Can you see any problems with the network cards, like lots of > collisions or errors (use ifconfig)? Green lights all the way. Do you think there is a problem that the other server, with the /home - partition, have only a 100 Mbit NIC? > There are absolutely no signs in /var/log/messages? > > Running out of files should produce errors in the syslog, but try > to increase open files limit to 64k. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
