I have been running LM8.0 with 2.4.4 on our 6-way HP LT6000r's for about
a month now with no issue. Then again, these are servers, and X is rarely
run. But they have been rock-solid serving heavy (10 gig db size) mysql
and web requests.
6 Xeon 550 CPU's
3-4 gigs SDRAM
30+ gig RAID 1 on AMI Megaraid
Intel-based 100Mbit Ethernet
ATI Mach64-based video
The rest of our servers are P3 550's running vanilla out of the box installs
of LM7.2 with 2.2.x kernels... all in all, I've been happy
with the way the migration is going so far.
Karl Davenport
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: J. Solomon Kostelnik [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Stability Concerns
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 19:26:25 +
Yea, I think I had replied to your earlier post as
well.
I've been thinking the kernel also, cuz it seems odd
that an X or KDE lockup would screw things up bad enough
that a ping won't get through. There was an article on
linuxtoday a few days ago on using a palm-pilot as a
terminal over a serial port. I wonder if you could get
in that way.
Has anybody tried 2.4.4 with Mandrake 8?
What kind of hardware are you running? Maybe if we get
enough responses we can narrow it down. I don't have
any HD on the IDE channels (and it's never locked up
while I was actively using the other IDE devices), so
that probably eliminates IDE block devices as the
culprit.
Eric
Eric, I thought your message was a duplicate of mine (I just sent a
couple
days ago)! That's how similar my problem is.
I'm also getting the freeze during bootup, in INIT, so I don't think
it's
solely KDE. Likewise, I have used RedHat in the past, with no problems,
so
I too doubt it's hardware.
I can't figure it out. Let me know if you come up with anything. I'm
thinking it may be the 2.4.3 kernel...
Solomon
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 12:02 PM
Subject: [expert] Stability Concerns
How is everybody finding the stability of their Mandrake
8 boxes? I've been having some problems.
I've had several random lockups while in KDE. Nothing I
can replicate. Somtimes it locks while I'm doing
something innocuous (moving mouse, minimizing window),
sometimes it's locked up over night. When this happens,
there is no saving it. Keyboard mouse are completely
dead, and it won't even respond to a ping over the net.
This has happened maybe 6 or 8 times total over the past
2 or 3 weeks.
I've also had 2 random reboots. Once was over night,
and the other was during the day while I was at work. I
had left the box logged in, when I get back the login
screen is up and last shows a reboot. The box is on a
UPS, and the other box on that UPS hasn't rebooted.
There is doesn't seem to be anything interesting in the
logs wrt these incidents.
I'm pretty confident that its not a hardware problem.
This box was rock-solid with a RedHat 6.2 variant.
Any ideas? Frankly, If I was satisfied with this kind
of stability, I'd have stuck with windows :-)
Eric
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