[PLUG] server crash

[Tyler F. Creelan]

On Sat, 4 May 2002, Michael H.Collins wrote:
> It is because these guys keep the machine running 98% on both procs
> 24/7.  It has to finally die... Are you working yours too hard too?

How does putting a full load on your cpu endanger the system? Do you
mean the hardware will physically degrade from too much use, or do the
additional context switches and io bring out operating system bugs to
cause race conditions and so forth?


Tyler

On Sat, 4 May 2002, Michael H.Collins wrote:

> I have a client with a dell server that does the same.  It is because
> these guys keep the machine running 98% on both procs 24/7.  It has to
> finally die.  By that point all logging is stopped.  The best I can do
> is keep top running 24/7 from home and show them the screenshot when it
> dies.  We are upgrading the box so hopeflly the problem will go away
> too.   It took about three screenshots of top to finally convince them
> it was working too hard.   This box is still up too, just no services
> work including keyboard attached.  I showed them the nice command and it
> seems to be well for the moment.  Are you working yours too hard too?
>
>
> On Fri, 3 May 2002 23:32:16 -0700 (PDT)
> "Josh Orchard" <josh at emediatedesigns.com> spewed into the bitstream:
>
> ~My server stopped responding a while back and I was locked out of the
> ~box. All services were gone.  Since I was unable to go to the box I had
> ~it rebooted and all is fine.
> ~
> ~What I would like to do now is find out why.
> ~
> ~I have gone through all the log files I thought would tell me something
> ~and the best I find is that right before it stopped responding someone
> ~was getting mail.  pop3.
> ~
> ~Is there some place other then messses/security/maillog/boot.log
> ~that I could look that could help me understand why all services
> ~stopped? I was told the power was on to the box but it wasn't
> ~responding.
> ~Thanks.
> ~
> ~Josh
> ~
> ~P.S.  It is a RH 7.0 Machine if that helps. Kernel 2.2.19-7.0-12.  I
> ~know there is an update to -16 but that will be this weekend.
> ~
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