is the server running the latest kernel patches? if not, try to apply first the latest system patches available for your distro.
reg --- Tito Mari Francis Esca�o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The server hung up again since Sunday evening. I > asked the technician > who attended on the server as we conversed via phone > and he relayed > that the server is no longer responding, the screen > displayes "call > trace", "journal remove" and kernel thread" messages > along with what I > believe were core dumps. > > Does it mean the system hung due to running out of > physical memory? If > memory resource exhaustion is the reason, what could > be the cuplrit? > This server was running OK from November last year > up until around > late February this year, then exhibited this > behavior. Worse, this > seems to be getting more often, it happened just > last week. > > Would running both web and database in a server > cause this? Last year, > the database server hanged. Could it be that the > database is the choke > point? The PHP scripts accessing it were written in > a way that only > one persistent connection is used by all sessions, > and I believe > there's no script in there written to close any > opened connection. > Could this be the problem? > > This database server was installed from i686 RPM, I > downloaded the > binary package straight from the database server's > home site (mirrored > in Asia via Japan). > > Is there also a possibility that PHP scripts > accessing data from the > database server drive that server out of memory or > just drive it > crazy? > > I'm basically a newbie on these possibilities and > could use all the > help I can get. Thank you very much in advance. > > On 4/1/06, Miguel A Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/28/06, Tito Mari Francis Esca�o > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Our server is an ASUS AP1600 S5 dual-Xeon 1U > server > > > > > > I think this is key. Hard hang, no dmesg output? > Might be an SMP > > problem with the chipset. > > > > How about running it in uniprocessor mode first? > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > -- > Tito Mari Francis H. Esca�o > Computer Engineer and Free Software Proponent > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
