If power is a suspect why not get a UPS, it sounds like even a small one would do, and it would probly work out better than buying a new server?
On 07/09/2007, K K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for recommendations for a new rackmount server with a > watchdog(4) device fully supported under OpenBSD 4.2. > > Currently I have a pair of Sun Fire v100 servers providing recursive > DNS services; each of these handles a peak of perhaps 50 > requests/second. One of the two servers will crash hard about once > every two months. When this happens, the server just stops, no > debugger, no console output. We've gone so far as to replace the > entire server with an identical v100 built from scratch with a > standard OpenBSD/sparc64 install from CD, and yet the problem still > happens on the same approximate schedule. I suspect a power glitch. > > Since power quality is out of our control, I've been asked by > management to make this problem go away, or at least to hide the > symptoms. Since I haven't been able to diagnose much less resolve the > problem, I figure the next best thing is to make sure that when the > server does freeze, it self-reboots instead of waiting for a human to > respond and manually power-cycle the machine. > > I see support for the pmc(4) watchdog on UltraSparc-III (my V100s are > IIe, no watchdog) systems, can I safely assume all new IIIi servers > from Sun (e.g. V125) include the PMC watchdog? > > Are there less expensive AMD64 rackmount 1U systems with hardware > watchdogs which I should also consider? > > > Thanks, > > Kevin > > -- -Lawrence -Student ID 1028219
