On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 06:23:00AM -0500, Matt Ayres wrote: > I have 2 servers who keep crashing, sometimes every few hours... I am > still working on a console solution so I don't know the exact place > where the problem is.
Hi Matt! > The servers are in a "half hung" state, they respond to PING and will > open TCP connections, but they won't send any data back. > > Is this how yours responds or is it a hard lock? > > I've tried with 2.4.22-c17e, 2.4.23pre8-c17h and 2.4.22-vs1.0.0 all with > the same results. this is/sounds bad, so we should try to narrow it down as soon as possible ... the following things I would suggest, to hunt this down ... - make some tests with the hardware (memtest86, temperature, cpu-stability) - search the log for the following strings 'APIC', 'NMI', 'ACPI', 'oops', 'panic' - enable the nmi watchdog and make sure it is active (/proc/interrupts) - enable magic sysreq, so you can force a stack trace for all running programms - look for ERR or MIS counts on a running machine in /proc/interrupts - you mention 2.4.22-vs1.00, did you add any other patches? if so, please try to reproduce with plain 2.4.22-vs1.00 ... - if this happens with plain 2.4.22-vs1.00, please try to reproduce with vanilla 2.4.22 (I know this his hard on a vserver host, but we have to know, it won't help to search in vserver code for a 2.4.22 bug/issue ... - when the machine is just hung, try to activate the magic sysreq, and dump all registers as well as the stack trace for the running tasks ... HTH, Herbert > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 06:00, James MacLean wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > 2 nights in a row at 4:00am when netstat runs, the system is Oopsing. I > > was running vs1.1.2 and am now upgrading to vs1.1.3 but do not see > > anything that suggests a fix in in the diffs. > > > > Possibly I am the only lucky one :)? I remember this happening some time > > ago in earlier vservers, and someone new the fix. The Oops was within > > tcp_get_info if I am reading the System.map correctly. > > > > JES > -- > Matt Ayres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > TekTonic > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver