strange hardware problem

[Daniel Gardiner]

Is this a new machine/setup or has it been running for some time?  It's 
similar to a problem we had with a memory leak in some new software 
several years back.  After the software had processed a certain amount 
of information critical memory would be overwritten and the system would 
either reboot or blue screen; yes, it was Windows so perhaps this isn't 
useful.


Daniel


Zbigniew Koziol wrote:

>
> The machine is running RedHat 9. Pentium III. It reports itself as 
> GenuineIntel
> in /proc/cpuinfo. It is not heavily used. Top shows mostly 99.8 % of 
> idle CPU
> as well a lot of free memory.
>
> It is used as a test server, visible also from the Internet.
>
> It just shuts down itself. In the sense that there is no access to it 
> by ssh,
> it does not respond to mouse or keybord. This happens more and more 
> often,
> recentely every 15 minutes.
>
> There is no any usefull info in log files (or at least I can not find 
> it).
>
> May be someone could perhaps suggest how to approach this problem, how 
> to solve it?
> How to find out what causes it?
>
> We checked the BIOS, apmd is not running.
>
> zb.
>
>


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