Whats a good way to simulate load on a server? I've flood-pinged it for 10 minutes, and the staff are complaining about network response to the other server! :)
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 20:47, Chris Hellyar wrote: > I'd doubt with a P4 class Motherboard that would be the case.. I would be > very surprised if the motherboard didn't have overtemp warning built, and > Craig being the diligent IT chappie he is would have noticed the server > happily beeping away to itself! > > I'd be checking the memory (memtest86 overnight, as Carl suggests).. > > The other thing that is an outside chance is that the two drives don't like > each other... whip out the CDrom and put the two drives on seperate IDE > channels if they aren't already. > > I had a problem with a customers box a wee while ago where a 20G Maxtor and > a 60G WD drive living on the same cable caused segfaults after the server > had been running for 40 minutes or so.. Took ages to find the source of the > trouble, but separating the drives fixed it. > > I've also seen CDrom drives interfere with a drive on the same cable... > > Cheers, Chris. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeremy Bertenshaw" > > > Freezes like that are nearly always cpu temp related IMHO, > > make sure it's got a good fan / heatsink and that thermal > > paste has been used, if the heatsink came with paste on it > > make sure the sticker over the paste was removed :-). >
