I will try the power supply suggestion. One other thing in addition to ping, if I ssh into it, I do connect and get a password prompt, but after that, nothing. So thought the system was still “running”.
The power supply is an easy change. I’ve also read that the new SSD drives I’m using may have a firmware issue that can cause them stop responding. They’re in a RAID-1 array, so I would think they’d both have to stop at the same time, which seems unlikely. I’m actually going to build a new system, but I don’t want to make the same mistake(s) twice. I’ve been running Ubuntu Linux on other systems for many years but I don’t think I’ve ever had a crash or unexplained behavior before, so I’m rather inexperienced in that area. I understand it isn’t Windows. Windows is worst operating system ever devised by man. > On May 19, 2017, at 4:24 AM, Cowboy <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Friday 19 May 2017 12:04:57 am Patrick wrote: >> I’m running the Rivendell Application installation which is Centos 6, I >> believe. >> There is currently 4G of RAM in this computer. I am having an intermittent >> problem where the systemstops responding, everything is frozen. It will >> respond to ping, but that’s it. > > These days, that ping response may be the network card itself, > and not the machine at all. > >> I cannot get anything to respondon the GUI and I cannot ssh into it. It’s >> behaving as if it is starved for RAM. The only thing I can do is powercycle. > > Really ? > How long have you waited ? > Remember, Linux, any linux, is not windows ! > RAM is managed quite differently. > In fact, it's a good thing for the machine to be using > close to ALL of the RAM ! > > Now, if it's swapping excessively, then it is short of RAM, but at 4G I'd find > that difficult to believe. > More likely, you have a failing power supply, ( that's what I would try first > ) > or a failing motherboard. > > The only thing killing off processes will get you, is extremely slow response > when they need to be reloaded, and won't help anyway if hardware is failing. > > -- > Cowboy > > http://cowboy.cwf1.com > > Real Users never use the Help key. > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
