Ohhhh yeah... I was having such a fit that I forgot to mention....
I tried disabling all cron jobs except at.... the machine load was doing
pretty well, and it _still_ crashed after just 2 days of being up....
Jeremy Domingue
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Domingue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, June 21, 1998 9:32 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Still crashing...HELP!!! (used to be - Bind processes to a
> specific processor using SMP?)
>
>
> Okay, well, the whole reason I'm trying to lower the usage of cron (or
> should I say, the processes it runs) is because I thought that the load on
> the machine may have been what has been crashing it over the past
> couple of
> months. I've been having a looooooooooooooong running problem of
> the server
> crashing every 5 days or so, now I'm down to about every 1-2 days the dang
> thing crashes. No matter what I do it will not stay up, and the problem
> continues to get worse.
>
> Here are the machine specs:
>
> Dual Pentium II 266
> 512mb EDO ECC SDRAM
> Adaptec 7880 on board SCSI controller
> 2 - 4.1 GIG IBM UW-SCSI hard drives
> 3com 10/100 TP Ethernet Card
>
> Redhat 5.0
> Kernel 2.0.34 w/SMP enabled, no modules. Both SCSI and Netcard driver are
> built in the kernel.
>
> I cannot keep the dang thing running anymore! There is absolutely
> nothing in
> the logs at the time it crashes.... just bang, it's gone. I am at my wits
> end here... I have no idea what else I can do except throw it out the
> friggen window. I hope someone out there can help!?!?!
>
> Jeremy Domingue
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan
> > Cornilescu
> > Sent: Sunday, June 21, 1998 8:17 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Bind processes to a specific processor using SMP?
> >
> >
> > Jeremy Domingue wrote:
> > >
> > > Other than that, is there a way to mimize the spikes that
> crontab causes
> > > without modifying the amount/types of programs that it runs?
> > >
> >
> > Try distributing the cron jobs more evenly in time. Many/heavy
> > jobs running in the same time may generate a lot of swapping,
> > which can bring the machine to it's knees (but it won't die :)
> >
> > If a single job is heavy enough to give one of those spikes, you
> > may try running the jobs at a lower priority using nice. This
> > would make the life easier to the users logged in, but it may
> > also generate heavy swapping.
> >
> > If swapping is your problem, consider getting more RAM (xosview
> > or top shows you the swap usage).
> >
> > dan
> >
> >
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