Where's the culprit?

[Peter King]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 09:39:02AM -0400, Neil Watson wrote:

> Is the time in the logs set to GMT?  My Athlon Opteron also froze
> yesterday.  I don't think it's ever happened before.  It happened at
> 1245 EDT. I am not using syslog-ng.
> 
> Any freeze is often related to faulty hardware.  You could try running
> another kernel if you suspect it.

My logs are in local time, so it must be a coincidence. Quite the coincidence,
though.

I have made some hardware changes recently: (a) adding memory, (b) putting in
a gigabit NIC. Both are suspect. The first memory sticks I bought, from Canada
Computers, were bad -- running memtest overnight gave something like 71000 errors.
The next sticks passed memtest, though. I had trouble getting the ethernet card
configured, because I hadn't noticed that udev decided to rename it eth4 (why?),
but that's my fault. There are reports of lockups/freezes with the e1000 driver.
But there seem to be such reports with most gigabit NICs, apart from those made
by Intel, which were not in stock at three stores I checked.

I compiled a new kernel (3.0.4) with the e1000 driver compiled in, and ran through
the syslog-ng configuration along with logrotate. Now I'm waiting to see what will
happen. The past two times took about, ohhh, 18 hours from boot, so we'll come
around to that this afternoon. If it goes bad, then I run memtest again, and if
that passes I switch out the ethernet card.

If it doesn't go bad I'll find some other hardware to play with instead  ;-)

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