> Joe Emenaker wrote: > > > > Aka... "why is my system so well hung?" :) > > > > Every now and then, I'll have a Debian box that starts having fits of hard > > system hangs. Sometimes, it goes away when I turn off a daemon. Other times, > > it goes away when I put the hard drives in an entirely different computer. > > > > Currently, I'm having this problem with one. Just... out of the blue, it > > will hang dead in its tracks. The keyboard doesn't even wake the screen so I > > can see if there are any kernel panic messages or anything. Ctrl-Alt-Del > > doesn't do anything. I have to hit the rest button. > > > > It doesn't seem to matter what's running becuase I've tried turning almost > > all of the daemons (except cron and a couple of others) off, and it still > > hung. It's happening more and more frequently, too. It used to be able to go > > for a week or two. Now, it barely makes it more than 4 hours or so. > > > > Now, I'm pretty certain that it's some hardware problem. But, I'd like to > > avoid moving the whole system to a brand-new machine, find that the problem > > has gone away, and conclude that there's just *something* bad about the old > > server and that I need to chuck the whole thing. > > > > So, I'd like to isolate the problem, if I could. > > > > With that in mind, does anyone have any personal experience concerning what > > the problem usually is in these cases? Motherboard? RAM? Has it ever helped > > anyone to *under*clock the CPU? > > > > I'm anxious for any ideas.... > > > > - Joe > > > > -- > Definitely not a good a idea to overclock, but I guess you > know that. > Most likely, you have some bad ram sitting in there, making > the life of your server miserable. The 100Mhz ram is said to > be more liable to crash, so it might be a good idea to try > some different ram-setups. > Some mobo's are also known to be more crashy than others, > especially the cheap ones (you basically get what you pay > for). I have a dual PII mobo from PC Chips, which is very > fast when it's working, but has a tendency to hard-crash > after maybe an hour...(luckily, I got almost for free :-) > hth > Vitux > > -- > Death comes to us in various guises, > swiftly changing as a baby's mood... > > Debian GNU/Linux > Micro$loth-free Zone
