I thought later about mentioning this, and that's exactly right. I always use the free memtest86 http://memtest86.com to test the memory sub-system before deploying.
Sometimes I turn down the FSB and the memory bus speed, makes the crashes go away. Oscar On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Christopher Schultz wrote: > All, > > > With RH8, I assume that at the very least you'll need to set > > LD_KERNEL_ASSUME. > > > > I would consider that the first course of action, and likely would not > > need to do anything else. I could see hyperthreading a problem if the > > kernel didn't support it very well. You could try the latest 2.4.x kernel. > > If the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL doesn't help, try disabling both SMP and > hyperthreading at the same time. I think that's your next most likely fix. > > Just a note: I've had big, beefy servers die with SIG11 on Linux before > (or course, that was back when a dual athlon 1GHz was considered 'beefy' > :). Anyway, we tried everything, including hiring BEA consultants for a > bazillion dollars per hour to help us tune both Weblogic and our VM. > > It turned out to be bad hardware. We had six identical machines and two > of 'em kept crapping out. They just sucked. The only solution was to > send them back to the manufacturer and ask for more. It turns out that > not only did those two (production!) machines suck, but two QA machines > and one dev machine (all the same) sucked, too. They all died when we > put them under high load. They seemed to do okay under development load > (about zero). > > I'll never buy a machine from "Penguin Computing" again. > > Just wanted to mention that sometimes it's not the software's fault. Do > you have other similar machines that you can try this on? > > -chris > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
