On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:19:19PM -0800, Cathy Sarisky wrote: > You've misunderstood me (although I don't think it changes the overall gist of your >message). Scheduled cron jobs stop running when this hang occurs.
after some further thoughts, I would add the following to the top of my list (of causes) - sudden process death caused by - segfault (bad memory, bad cache, bad cpu) - resource limitation (ulimit, klimit) - some process reaping daemon suggestions: - (let the data center tech) run memtest86 - compile the vanilla kernel for at least 5 hours and see if some sigsegfault arises - run xaos (or something cpu intensive) for several hours ... best, Herbert > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > >let us assume there is such a process running ... > >- where should such a process come from? > > - cron jobs? no you don't run cron jobs on the server! > > - left over process from virtual server XY? > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Sent via the WebMail system at webmail.pioneernet.net > > > >
