Troubleshooting server crashes

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:41:19AM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> Nothing, it crashed ;-)  Seriously, no life, could not wake up the video, fans 
> whirring but no other obvious signs that the computer is even on.

If a server is misbehaving, be SURE to disable console blanking, since
if the machine crashes, you often can not unblank it to see what
happened.

> What I  realized after sending the first email is that even though this server 
> has historically been very stable (yes, 2-3 years) about 2 weeks ago it was 
> pushed into some extra services (many more websites and went from 2 databases 
> to 44).
> 
> Although the server still doesn't break a sweat there is significantly more 
> processing going on.  I'm leaning towards bad ram in light of the fact that 
> it's almost certainly using more ram and bad bits might be getting tickled 
> that were previously unused.

Could it have run out of ram?  Is it running a kernel without any known
issues?

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Lennart Sorensen
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