On 13 September 2012 18:47, Mark Beharrell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Do you have the same interface card(s) and driver versions on your local
> system?? I would suspect a driver problem?
>
> Mark Beharrell
> On Sep 13, 2012 10:47 AM, "Derek Smithies" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>  No activity for some time, so I thought I would kick things off with a
>> question.
>> Any suggestions (including shell commands) are welcome..
>>
>> I have a problematic box on a customers site in the US. it is not going
>> to be easy to get physical access. SSH access  is doable.
>>
>> I have been writing software for a guy in the US - in which the server
>> maintains 20 concurrent TCP connections,
>> there will be as many UDP streams. Most of the UDP stream are inactive at
>> any given point in time. Usually - there are
>> no UDP flows - or 4 UDP flows. Sometimes 8 or 12 UDP streams.
>>
>> The TCP connections are the control information to start/stop the voice
>> streams.
>> The UDP streams are voice streams.
>>  This is a non standard variant on IAX2 - a better variant, but that is
>> another discussion.
>>
>> This particular software is running on a centos 5.2 box. There are
>> hundreds of installations using this software in the states...
>>
>> One customer has a cable modem (which is something like an ADSL box
>> without a NAT) and then a Belkin router (which is a NAT+wireless access
>> point+lots of ethernet ports for the lan side). The connection to the
>> public internet is via a 3G type link that has a mtu of 1000.
>> Not sure on the exact specifics of the internet connection - the
>> description made no sense to me.
>>
>> The customer has reported kernel panics - many of them.
>>
>> Memory checks? yes. Replaced all memory sticks with nice proper good
>> verified memory..
>>
>> Program faults? This program is running fine on all other installations -
>> kernel panics have not been reported before.
>>
>> CPU overload. No. loadavg is < 1, cpu busy percentage is 20%.
>>
>> I am not installing mrtg (or similar) tool on this box.
>>
>> ping tests are ok - you can ssh into this box on his site. Most of the
>> time, the box works fine and conveys all voice data,
>> all web traffic, all TCP commands just fine... except for these kernel
>> panics. Now, the sad part of the whole diagnostic
>> process is that I am not seeing the kernel panics in front of me. The
>> customer reports the kernel panics to the guy
>> I have been working for, who then reports them to me.
>>
>
I'd suspect a hardware problem too, especially as it has been particularly
warm in parts of the Northern hemisphere.

If you were to install the lm_sensors package you can get a list of various
temperature readings.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/how-to-check-cpu-temp-from-command-line-as-root-user-4175418632/

-- 
Sincerely,
Christopher Sawtell
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