Re: Unstable server
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:00:04PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: What kernel were you running before? 2.2.18 and before that 2.2.17 and 2.2.16, same prob ;) It smells like crappy hardware to me. http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ has some suggestions. If I were the system's administrator, I'd make backups _now_ and have it run memtest86 for a few days. Hmm... I might do that, yeah... Thanks for pointing me in a direction! -- Paul Fleischer / ProGuy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unstable server
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:00:04PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: What kernel were you running before? 2.2.18 and before that 2.2.17 and 2.2.16, same prob ;) It smells like crappy hardware to me. http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ has some suggestions. If I were the system's administrator, I'd make backups _now_ and have it run memtest86 for a few days. Hmm... I might do that, yeah... Thanks for pointing me in a direction! -- Paul Fleischer / ProGuy
Re: Unstable server
On Wednesday 14 March 2001 18:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, What happends is that the system suddenly has used all memory, and therefore in turn dies with those awfull messages on the console. But the weirdest thing, was when it restartet itself, with an broken ext2 partition... kernel oops/panics don't reboot unless you set the timeout specific (or am I wrong?). Hi, I'd check my ram if i were you. Therefore you can use Memtest86 - http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/. See http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/index.html and http://webrum.uni-mannheim.de/math/schmoigl/linux/howto/BadRAM-HOWTO.html if you want to be able to use your bad RAM - it works great ! Dexter -- Francis "Dexter" Gois- mailto : [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Network Administrator - Tiscali Belgium NV/SA Keep the Internet Free with Tiscalinet - phone: +3224000839 http://www.tiscalinet.be/- fax: +3224000899 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unstable server
On Wednesday 14 March 2001 18:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, What happends is that the system suddenly has used all memory, and therefore in turn dies with those awfull messages on the console. But the weirdest thing, was when it restartet itself, with an broken ext2 partition... kernel oops/panics don't reboot unless you set the timeout specific (or am I wrong?). Hi, I'd check my ram if i were you. Therefore you can use Memtest86 - http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/. See http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/index.html and http://webrum.uni-mannheim.de/math/schmoigl/linux/howto/BadRAM-HOWTO.html if you want to be able to use your bad RAM - it works great ! Dexter -- Francis Dexter Gois- mailto : [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Network Administrator - Tiscali Belgium NV/SA Keep the Internet Free with Tiscalinet - phone: +3224000839 http://www.tiscalinet.be/- fax: +3224000899
Re: Unstable server
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 18:56:04 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently I'm running kernel 2.4.2 (upgraded to 2.4.2 to try to see if the problem was fixed) What kernel were you running before? Or if it's crappy hardware? It smells like crappy hardware to me. http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ has some suggestions. If I were the system's administrator, I'd make backups _now_ and have it run memtest86 for a few days. HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.
